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Welcome to Lemmy.World General!

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

🪆 About Lemmy World

🧭 Finding Communities

Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!

Also keep an eye on:

For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!

💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
!casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
!movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!

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Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.

0. See: Rules for Users.

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Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
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No matter who you are, thanks for being here. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works to c/general@lemmy.world

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It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.

When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn't expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I've spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I've seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.

I've gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I'll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy's source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.

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[–] ParanoidAndroid@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm still waiting for the tech communities to migrate here. I mean - tech unrelated to web and this platform. There are lots of very busy people who just don't follow everything that is happening around. I've seen a post on Reddit that just linked here, and since I really, really do hate Reddit owners, I created an account here to see if it can replace Reddit with my work included.

I'm glad there's some traffic here. But well, I haven't even found a way to search for a specific community. That makes more serious use a little tricky. I hope the features will appear here soon.

I tried the tildes, but same thing. It's like "general purpose", it's hard or impossible to find a specific community.

And that's exactly the things Reddit killed - specific community forums. And well, most of what's left of them remains still on Evil Corp.

[–] gk99@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But well, I haven't even found a way to search for a specific community.

From what I understand, you kinda just search for stuff in the description. For example, if I search for cs@kbin.social, I won't find it, I have to search "counter strike" and then it pops up.

[–] urtiscay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I head that they are working on fixing the search functionally but in the mean time there is this git hub https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search that your server admin can add to their lemmy instance

[–] Orionza@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I was thinking about this last night. Reddit is set up by community. If I feel like only going to my game community for a question or to just read people's posts and tips, I can. Here, everything you've subscribed to scrolls past in order of post date. Perhaps an app can at least display by a hashtag or a set of tags for your topic

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

We need to make this a community people want to come to. If we can foster a kind and helpful and entertaining and informative community, more people will come and we will grow. We got this!