Now that is a substantial amount of users on here now (from a particular source that looks awfully like Lemmy but is very corporate ewww). What are some tips and tricks for using lemmy or the fediverse in general to help those new users to get accustomed to this platform?
To find new communities - go to lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right “Home” icon and type your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)… now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.
Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): lemmy.ml/post/1470777
Change your default “Sort Type” to “Subscribed + New” (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.
Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more ‘performative’ tone of greeddit).
Don't put too much effort into picking your home Instance right away. Just pick one and go. As you get more familiar with the place, then start to put some thought into which Instance you really want to be on.
One you pick your real home Instance, just start a brand new account over there and start over. You can use your original account on the whatever Instance as an alt, in case your home server goes down for maint.
Search for the names of all the communities that you're part of on reddit and join the biggest two or three with the same name that you see here. Post to whichever is your favorite or whichever is biggest if you can't tell the difference in order to encourage consolidation.
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