I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

I found that using All to subscribe to things I like and over time using my subscribed list works.
You can also block communities you don’t want to see and view All by default.

Don't get them wet, and don't feed them after midnight.
No, wait. I'm confusing Lemmy with Gremlins. Nevermind.
- Don't listen to them, this is who you're posting with
- Goddamn it, you're only telling us now??? 😁
  
  Totally. That's why mine e.g. is much better

Watch out for those radicals over on the Hexbear instance. They'll getcha!
- They lure you in with their neat thematic icons and ordered structure, but they're all MANIACS there! Every last one of them!
- Crazy hexbear goobers will remove your eyes before you know it, watch out!
  
  Can't watch out; they gots m'eyes!
- I gots sharp teeth I tell yah

Ignore people who start screaming insults about instances which are not their own.

Read a community’s rules before posting or commenting. Take this community, for instance:
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Each Lemmy instance also has its own site-wide rules.
- Why does this rule exist?
  
  Since there are other communities more fit for these kinds of questions
  
  Because other more specific communities exist for that.

Use the 'scaled' sort for your frontpage. Helps keep the smaller communities you sub to from getting totally drowned out by some of the larger ones.

Don’t eat yellow snow.
- But do wiz on the electric fence.
- Scoop some into a cup and let it melt first, then you can safely drink it 🙂

There is only one real user here. Everyone else (including myself) is a bot.
- Very cool image! It looks like there's some text on it. Would you mind responding to this comment and telling me what the text says?
- You're the real MVB

Have fun - and invite your friends and relatives and colleagues 😎

find some pictures of cute animals and share them with us

If you use it in the web version, I have LULs, a script which makes all Lemmy links that point to a different instance which you encounter while browsing, to point to your instance.
- BTW, do you know why are there so many forks of Greasemonkey? What happened to the parent project?
- oo nice!

Have fun and try to engage. Download an app for your phone. There are multiple per os so try them all and choose what suits you best

- dot org
- Also play settlers of catam

Honestly, I’d just suggest engaging with any topic you enjoy. Comment, find communities you’re interested in, maybe even start your own.
Welcome! Lemmy is a great place.

Find communities you want to see on here and subscribe to them. If you just go through home feed then it's mainly politics and tech news.

Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, we have some pinned posts. You can also ask questions as you get them :)

Just use it as you would reddit or any other social media platform. Welcome.

explore different subs that catches your interests

I use voyager app, unsure about other apps or website, but check if your able to easily block users. Instances and communities, I usually scroll through the all free and block things I just can't stand and are heavily just annoying, also has a ability to filter out keyword. Makes my browsing less depressing.

Stay true to your heart.

Use a trusted VPN and/Tor while surfing

Don't give Loch Ness monster 3.50.
- What do you want from us, monster?!

Nah you’re doing fine

Learn about the fediverse as much as possible! Learn about instances and check our their about bar/ page. Download a mobile application and explore the many options you have. Try to figure out why you want to be here. Check out the list of popular instances (a lot of the instances have esoteric names) and see if there's an instance that reflects your interests. Check what they're federated to, and decide if those are the kind of people you want to talk to/ share your interests. There are general instances like ".ml and .world. " These instances can become overburdened. The account you have on their instance is your access to the rest of the fediverse/ lemmy.
Our active user base is somewhat small. The biggest thing is to explore, read side bar rules, and post!
It's a lot of information, and when I first got into it, I felt over my head.
ALSO YOU CAN'T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.
Posting to 196 would be a good example.
- ALSO YOU CAN’T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.
  Yes you can. But just as is true with posting and editing, sometimes a deletion will fail to federate to all instances. No federation action is guaranteed, but rather best effort.
  
  Sorry, you can't delete your comment if they choose to disallow that. That's common on lemmy. That's why you'll get downvotes on poorly written comments you give up on and delete.
- Ok what even is “the fediverse” and why is it called that?
  I’m here to waste time, like I’d imagine most of us are
  
  It's a series of self hosted, inter connected, social (mostly) media platforms sharing similar names/ templates. Lemmy is like reddit, but even more decentralized than something like mastadon, which is like twitter.Twitter. Most social media apps have/ used to have a specific purpose. Honestly, I should have this compiled in a clean and easy to share format.

Post feet
- feet content on lemmy do be lacking tho