Hello. My first time here. As the title says, this is my first “thread” creation here. What are some things I should watch out for when I post here? Am I even allowed to create a thread even though this is my first time here? Or are there rules like Karma points, like in Reddit? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. And nice meeting you all!
I think the most confusing idea for newcomers is federation. You and I, we’re on lemmy.world, which is kind of like Reddit, but we’re connected to a million other servers. Some of them are other servers like Reddit, kind of like if you could comment on Reddit posts from Digg. Some of them are not, kind of like if you could comment on Reddit posts from Twitter, or Instagram. Every instance has a little different culture — lemmy.world is the “default” instance so our culture is pretty dilute, but some other instances have very strong cultures, for instance the stridently communist lemmy.ml server.