There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here’s a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

  • tartra@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Hi everybody! Nice to meet you all. :D I’m over in Ottawa, and I’m completely new to Lemmy (immigrating from Reddit), so I hope I can learn the culture of this place okay!

    First thing’s first: I’m going to figure out how to navigate this place, and then I’m going to start talking to folks. Wish me luck (or wish me a For Redditors help guide). :P

    Edit: This is probably going to make the OG Lemmings (Lemmites?) cry, but I think this place makes easier sense if I go at it like:

    • Instance = subreddit
    • Community = post flair

    Because each instance is its own website with its own admin, and each community is a group within that instance. I can join a community to chat about whatever the community’s about, but if I want to go to the communities in a different instance, it’s like going to a different subreddit; I can’t just find it by trying to ‘filter’ the communities by their ‘flair’ since that community isn’t ‘here’. It’s at a completely different subreddit/instance/website. :)