Asklemmy

Use the 'scaled' sort for your frontpage. Helps keep the smaller communities you sub to from getting totally drowned out by some of the larger ones.

Find communities you want to see on here and subscribe to them. If you just go through home feed then it's mainly politics and tech news.

Stay true to your heart.

Ignore people who start screaming insults about instances which are not their own.

Don't give Loch Ness monster 3.50.

If you use it in the web version, I have LULs, a script which makes all Lemmy links that point to a different instance which you encounter while browsing, to point to your instance.

Nah you’re doing fine

Have fun - and invite your friends and relatives and colleagues 😎

Have fun and try to engage. Download an app for your phone. There are multiple per os so try them all and choose what suits you best

Don't get them wet, and don't feed them after midnight.

No, wait. I'm confusing Lemmy with Gremlins. Nevermind.

find some pictures of cute animals and share them with us

I found that using All to subscribe to things I like and over time using my subscribed list works.

You can also block communities you don’t want to see and view All by default.

Don’t eat yellow snow.

Watch out for those radicals over on the Hexbear instance. They'll getcha!

Read a community’s rules before posting or commenting. Take this community, for instance:

3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below

Each Lemmy instance also has its own site-wide rules.

There is only one real user here. Everyone else (including myself) is a bot.

I use voyager app, unsure about other apps or website, but check if your able to easily block users. Instances and communities, I usually scroll through the all free and block things I just can't stand and are heavily just annoying, also has a ability to filter out keyword. Makes my browsing less depressing.

Just use it as you would reddit or any other social media platform. Welcome.

Read Settlers

Use a trusted VPN and/Tor while surfing

Honestly, I’d just suggest engaging with any topic you enjoy. Comment, find communities you’re interested in, maybe even start your own.

Welcome! Lemmy is a great place.

Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, we have some pinned posts. You can also ask questions as you get them :)

explore different subs that catches your interests

Learn about the fediverse as much as possible! Learn about instances and check our their about bar/ page. Download a mobile application and explore the many options you have. Try to figure out why you want to be here. Check out the list of popular instances (a lot of the instances have esoteric names) and see if there's an instance that reflects your interests. Check what they're federated to, and decide if those are the kind of people you want to talk to/ share your interests. There are general instances like ".ml and .world. " These instances can become overburdened. The account you have on their instance is your access to the rest of the fediverse/ lemmy.

Our active user base is somewhat small. The biggest thing is to explore, read side bar rules, and post!

It's a lot of information, and when I first got into it, I felt over my head.

ALSO YOU CAN'T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.

Posting to 196 would be a good example.