Read posts and comments. Upvote the good stuff, downvote the bad stuff. Post comments, ask questions, join communities etc.
If you write stuff people like, you’ll get upvotes. If you’re mean, you get downvoted to oblivion.
Can you suggest some beginner friendly communities
Lemmy is fairly small compared to other social media sites so instead of restricting yourself to a handful of communities I’d recommend browsing the “all” feed and just seeing everything.
Keep an eye on the instance each community is hosted on as there’s often a social or political bias.
You can then block communities and instances that you aren’t interested in or would rather not see.
This should get you started. Hopefully you enjoy some of this stuff.
cute stuff
weird stuff
interesting stuff
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
If you also like linux stuff, open source stuff, or political stuff, there’s no shortage of those communities.
Gmail is an email provider, and so is protonmail. They are two companies providing email services. And you can communicate between the two email services by sending emails. Both email providers have their own rules and regulations you have to follow because they are run by different people in different places/countries.
Lemmy is similar. Each Lemmy instance provider is run by different people in different places/countries. When you make a comment or post on one instance, it automatically sends your message/post to the other Lemmy providers/instances (if they don’t block the federation). You have to follow the rules of the provider/instance you join, just like for email providers.
Choosing a Lemmy provider/instance based on location or theme is the most common. Also, it’s recommended to not choose the most popular instance, because that would defeat the purpose of federation if everyone is in one place, like reddit (one company, one location, one rule set for the entire platform).
It’s like Reddit, but not owned by a large faceless corporation intent on using it for social engineering. That being said, if you disagree with the political ideology of some instances they’ll give you a ban for racism and not qualify it. Eg don’t talk badly about Russia or Palestine on lemmy.ml posts. Generally, be nice and people will reciprocate. Except lemmy.ml.
I don’t know how it works, but it does!
Communities are similar to subreddits, with the main difference that there are many servers (instances) instead of just over main website. I find it helpful to think of it as IRC servers on the larger networks: your user is associated with one instance, but you can access users and Communities associated with different ones more or less seamlessly.
There’s no algorithm so it’s up to you to block communities you don’t have an interest in. If you see a user you constantly don’t like you can block them too. By structuring it that way you’ll get a feed of things you want to see and people you want to hear from.
(You can always un-do a block if you change your mind)
There are algorithms, just not ones tailored to individual users.
I can’t
Id start by asking for help from experienced vetrans of this site instead of other new users to the site🤪 /s
