Hello World!

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.

  • Crack_@lemmy.world
    301·
    1 year ago

    I just left today because relay went into subscription mode. It’s nothing against dbrady I know he does his best (made the best app for Android afaik, and even his subscription isn’t a money grab) but fuck reddit charging people for using their social media. Don’t want snap insta tic tok Facebook twitter etc… to start charging us.

    Fuck that shit. I’m old and I remember what the internet used to be. I’m having a hard time accepting everything becoming a fucking subscription (looking at you YouTube).

    Also, I’m using boost for Lemmy and I quite like it. If anyone can suggest anything else/better to try I’d be grateful.

    Edit: this is my first comment 🥳🥳🥳

    • Veltoss@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      Same. I didn’t care for relay compared to RiF, not my preference, but it was good enough after RiF died. But now that relay is out too? I’m not sure I can stomach using the reddit app. I’m definitely not paying for anything either. I already pay with my mental health by reading reddit comments, I’m not paying money to do it too.

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Welcome! Former long time Relay user, but I left reddit in June. For what it’s worth, I like Thunder and Connect. They are both open source and add free (no offense to ad supported apps). Just thought you might like to know what a fellow Relay user settles on after months of trying them all out.

    • BigBase@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, relays fine but sync was my main app they ceased their reddit app in june. Just realized they had a spiritual successor for Lemmy up and running so I’m giving it a try now. All the server stuff got me feeling like a boomer but the app actually feels like I remember sync for reddit feeling so I’m hoping I can get into the swing of things without too much trouble!