What are Lemmy's unwritten rules?
What are Lemmy's unwritten rules?
I’ll start. Non serious answers also welcome
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Linux (Linux)
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FOSS or die
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Video content should have been text
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Not caring a LOT about privacy makes you a non-lemmy normie
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Your YouTube link should have been a Piped link but it's okay.
You're free to enjoy the lemmit.online content, but don't interact with it or you will appear confused.
Don't stress about upvotes/downvotes-- They're even more made up here than usual.
Never pass up an opportunity to bitch about ads, Chrome, Reddit, capitalism, Arch users, streaming services, or your favorite Lemmy client.
Do not attempt the Picard Maneuver unless you're sure you know what you're doing.
Linux is bloat, I'm training the ants in a giant maze, got Doom running on it last weekend.
Must appreciate good sticks.
Edit: !stick@sh.itjust.works
No! What are you doing?! If you write them down, they're no longer unwritten!
Each community, at some point in time, has to have someone with severe a case of Main Character Syndrome make a post that refers to another post where their feelings got hurt cuz their initial post didn't get the exact kind of attention they wanted, which then results in a total shit fit in the comments.
I've seen it happen numerous times in my short time on Lemmy. Especially on !memes@lemmy.ml.
People need to learn how to just suck it up and move on ffs. I swear it's the r*dditard mentality leaking in here.
This mentality is why lemmy has been haemorrhaging users since the July reddit migration.
You guys are some seriously judgmental bellends a lot of the time.
I don't use Linux because I want my life to be simple, I use lots of Foss and lots of non Foss because I want my life to be simple. I'm glad others care enough about privacy to fight for it because that's a demonstrably good thing in the world, but I just want a simple life and don't honestly care if I'm getting tailored ads and Amazon are listening to my inane kitchen conversations.
I don't want to support reddit but you guys (ironically) make it much much harder to leave when there is next to no acceptance here for anyone who's not a Linux expert who pushes for communism and has never used a Google product in their life.
I know I know, I'm everything that's wrong with the world :) x
We shall talk about communism and Linux.
/end
I have been curating my experience on lemmy by muting communities I don't care for like politics, sports, some Linux communities, and also I always filter NSFW.
I have never been happier because I don't see what I don't care for.
Rule 0 - talking about how cool Lemmy is
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Every thread against people not strictly aligning with Leftist politics will be boiled down to: “There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy fascists on the other side, and lily-livered wimps who can’t pick a side (and are also secretly fascists who just won't admit it)!”
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Anyone with passable writing skills will be downvoted because creating cogent arguments against them is hard, and heaven forbid anyone see a smart argument that doesn't align with your views perfectly.
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In a similar vein, people will use the downvote as a "fuck you" button without commenting or adding any value to the conversation whatsoever.
(Edit: Yes, yes. You're all hilarious. I may not have a button to hit, but fuck you too.)
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AI hate or get downvoted
If we wrote it here they wouldn't be unwritten!
Don't comment on anything related to any conflicts immediately East of the Mediterranean lest you wish to be in an ad hominem "debate".
This problem drives valuable content away from the site, unless the lurkers up/down vote based on the value of a contribution (and not their personal opinion) or the mods step in, which is still seemingly rare.
You're either a lib or a tankie.
My aside:
In every community I see this. There are always folks trying to narrow the community to some cut and dry descriptors—which for them are always obvious.
Sometimes the jab is perhaps intended as a joke. But to my reading it's always a trope, namely the tired fallacy of taking a part as the whole.
Either way, it's myopic. In any internet community, we're always bound to narrowly see what's happening. Because:
- We can only see the posters, never the lurkers—which far exceed the former;
- Posters, by virtue of taking the time to post, are most often than not highly opinionated;
- Our reading is always selective. We're either misguided by the way the comments are sorted, by our mood at the moment, by chance, or simply because we're really bad at reading;
- Our reading is always biased. Either by our mood, our current situation in life, our upbringing, our milieu, whatever;
- the list goes on and on and on.
This results in a very reductive view that, although very teasing because very personal and idiosyncratic, is ultimately an exercise in futility. To those already biased, it simply supplies them with fodder to confirm what they already believed.
From afar, it's just noise. Any view on what the community is is but a poor reflection of what the community ultimately is.
#694U No licking yourself in public.
Use sentence case and periods. I've seen other communities where omitting periods was fine. Also, try not to use emojis but if you do, do it sparingly.
Don't be anywhere near the center. Don't make any arguments about corporations providing value. Don't try to report violent tankie content. Don't point out that lemmy is just going to end up like forums because of power mods and admins defeding people they don't like. And don't call piracy stealing. People really don't like when you call them thieves.
the only rule that matters:
FUCK SPEZ
To label anything and everything you disagree with on the news as propaganda, regardless of whether it makes sense or not.
Feels like home
When you do the metaphorical moderation equivalent of running somebody over with your car, just return to acting to normal, no one will care and everyone will quietly suspect the guy in the metaphorical hospital making accusations regardless of how much the metaphorical tire tracks match.
Don't know. I haven't found them yet.