I’m new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don’t know anything about lemmy etiquette and don’t want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind :D

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    Because lemmy is much smaller, you tend to rub into the same users more often. So if someone comes off as abrasive, blocking them can have a notable impact on your experience.

    Dogpiling is worse, and it can pay to know what instance the community you’re posting in is, as the games community on hexbear is going to be different than on world.

    It’s much more “left” than reddit. Notably, while this instance, lemmy.ml, is the flagship instance run by the lead dev, the “ml” stands for marxist-leninist.

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      10 hours ago

      does ml actually stand for marxist-leninist? i remember using domains with .ml tld a long time ago with freenom’s $0 domains lol.

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      14 hours ago

      the “ml” stands for marxist-leninist.

      I absolutely naively originally signed up there (under a different nym) thinking it was Machine Learning related. What I get for not doing any research.

      Meh. Didn’t take long to get banned for my radical opinion that all forms of Us-vs-Them tribalism are dehumanizing. (Even when we think the Other Guys are really really All Bad.)

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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        5 hours ago

        Didn’t take long to get banned for my radical opinion that all forms of Us-vs-Them tribalism are dehumanizing.

        it’s always the pro-genocide people acting so injured on when the vile stuff they say gets a negative response