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The last week or so we have seen quite a big ‘boost’ in the amount of new users signing up so we thought it would be a good time to highlight some things that are of interest to new users.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Lemmy World is not a free speech instance, there are a couple of ground rules that need to be followed. If you’re new, I would advise you to read our Code of Conduct.

NEW USER QUESTIONS

If you are new to the fediverse as a whole, it might all be a bit overwhelming. What is Lemmy? What is federation? What even is an instance? For those questions I would suggest you have a look at the getting starting guide. It should cover most of your questions.

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?

You can head over to the !support@lemmy.world community. This community should be used for questions regarding Lemmy World and is not the support community for the Lemmy software this site uses.

Our Admin @quinten recently made a post covering the most recurring questions there too. Read about that here.

ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES

Lemmy World hosts a few custom User Interfaces which give you a completely different experience both on the desktop as on mobile.

THIRD PARTY APPS

There are a lot of Third Party apps available for Lemmy. From Paid to Open Source, you will find something that suits you easily.

For a complete list of apps have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ (Thanks Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de).

EDIT: Updated the apps list. Also some more interesting links in @otter@lemmy.ca’s post here: https://lemmy.world/comment/3962001

EDIT 2: Instead of https://photon.lemmy.world you can now just go to https://p.lemmy.world. You can thank @Rootiest@lemmy.world laziness for that.

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    1 year ago

    It reminds me when the Mastodon replaced Twitter. I did my account there, then I had trouble logging in because instances don’t share the logging process. Eventually my posts were lost, now I just checked and my account disappeared.

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      1 year ago

      The federated paradigm and its fragmented nature has differences we need to get used to.

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          1 year ago

          Account deleted. IIRC the instance disappeared for a while (mastodon.social in this case) then I couldn’t login anymore. Other instances (e.g., mastodon.uno) of course don’t keep my whole message history. At first I understood that communities are shared, you can post in the same community from many account (often the example of “email is federated” is used). But I’m not sure anymore. Seems the case for c/announcements, but not for many others, so you have communities which are are already little further fragmented.

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      1 year ago

      Your account is automatically removed after a long time of inactivity