cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853004

Hello there, and welcome to the Fediverse! Let’s get you started.

This post was created together with many users, intended to help you have an easy start! It has a simple language, and it includes many useful links.

For your first day here

Hello, newbie user! Lemmy is just like Reddit, but better. Ha-ha. Seriously. But let’s not overwhelm you for now.

This very neat starting guide was written by our beloved admin, @ruud. To avoid confusion, start reading it from the Quick start guide section.

If you’re new to Lemmy, this post will also help you perfectly.

kbin users can check out this amazing starting guide instead. This is also a nice guide.

Finding Communities on Lemmy/kBin

If you finished reading your starting guide, it’s time to go find your new favorite communities! Check out these dedicated services: number 1, 2, 3, and 4, and 5! Go have some fun! :D

For your second day here

Hello again! You’re less of a newbie now, and you found some amazing communities! We can start talking about the Fediverse. I hope you didn’t forget to read the rules for lemmy.world!

kBin.social’s rules are in this link.

The Fediverse

You must’ve realised that we addressed Lemmy and kBin users differently. And what is this Fediverse people keep talking about, anyways?

Lemmy and kBin are two different platforms, and they can perfectly interact with each other! This means that they are a part of the federation. And they are only two members of the vast Fediverse.

What is the Fediverse? video by Framasoft to get a good understanding with visuals!

As a great lemming once said: Fediverse is basically like a group chat, but for websites. This means that federated websites all agree to share their content with each other, constantly, at the same time.

Follow this link to view a list of all Lemmy instances.

Follow this link to open the Fediverse Observer. It is set to show kBin, but you can navigate your way through the site to show any Fediverse platform you’d like.

For your third day here

That’s it! What else do you want? Go have some fun and keep learning along the way! ;)

  • wall_panel_96@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 hours ago

    after a quick look around its pretty left leaning and moderated here too. fingers crossed nobody pushes my buttons and i say something to get banned here too… good luck out there

    • nun@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 hours ago

      I think the appeal of this one is different instances are ran by different people so you can’t really be “banned from lemmy” unless you seriously deserve to. I think the one you are one (.world) is run by more right-leaning mods while .ml is run by Marxists. No idea if mine has a political affiliation but it was the default option on the app I’ve downloaded.

        • nun@lemm.ee
          1·
          35 minutes ago

          So the way it was explained to me was like email. You can use your Gmail to send an email to someone using Outlook for example. So this post is hosted on for example lemmy.world (I cant actually figure out how to check yet) but I can still interact with it from my lemm.ee account. If for some reason I was banned from .world I wouldnt be able to interact with this post but would still be able to post and comment in any communities hosted on one of the other instances.