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

  • mech@feddit.org
    183·
    7 hours ago

    If you follow these, you’ll be fine:

    Don’t hate on minorities
    Don’t post AI content outside of communities made for it
    Don’t insert yourself into communities where you don’t belong, eg:

    • Don’t comment “As a man, …” in WomensStuff
    • Don’t debate the validity of trans folks on Blahaj
    • Don’t criticize China in any way on lemmy.ml

    DO NOT post anything negative about Linux (unless you’re comparing it to BSD, of course)

    Sometimes it’s a bit harder not to offend than on reddit, because posts may hit your front page from an instance that was created as a safe space for a group you’re not part of, and they may react harshly to you budding in.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      2·
      14 minutes ago

      You can criticize China, there’s just good ways and bad ways of doing that. Overwhelmingly, “critique” just means dogmatically repeating red scare-style nonsense seeing China as an enemy, and not genuine critique.

    • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
      4·
      4 hours ago

      I’d add that you should be able to criticize anything you want on Lemmy. Sometimes you are right and the whole world is wrong. Especially if some Chinese Linux distro messed up your laptop. /s

      • mech@feddit.org
        6·
        4 hours ago

        You can post whatever you want on Lemmy without any moderation, just fire up your own instance.
        No one will stop you and no one can ban you. But no one is forced to stay federated with you, or allow your content on their servers, either.