Welcome to your new online home!

Whether you’ve just joined out of curiosity after the banning of the original r/TheDeprogram or you’ve decided to leave Reddit for good, I’m glad that you’re here and this megathread is for you!

Instead of having multiple comments across different posts, which might make it difficult to see, you can now ask your questions and post your feedback here.

You sure can!

  1. Choose an Instance (For Marxist/Leftist communities, I recommend one of the following 3. Each of these Instance explain their values and moderation policies):

  1. Sign up and personalize your profile

  2. Choose how to browse (You can find a lot of options right here based on your preferences - you can use an app or an alternative front-end)

  3. Find your favorite communities to subscribe to (Instead of subreddits, here we have communities!)

  4. That’s it! You’re ready to interact with other lovely users and engage in the community

If you want to share your opinion after joining Lemmy, seek feedback on the best browsing apps, or discuss anything else, feel free to do so right here!

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    3 days ago

    I would also like to add, lemmygrad is very different in culture from reddit. There are very few liberals and chuds wandering in because most of their instances have pre-emptively defederated from us. You may still see them on lemmy.ml (sort of the hub instance) but if their instances are not federating they won’t see your comments.

    We also moderate differently from reddit and because this is such a tight space you’ll see a lot of the same usernames all over, including the admins. We purposely keep the rules on the instance simple so that there’s not a whole bunch of stuff to remember and due to the aforementioned tight space, we usually act on community reports as sort of sitewide moderation. Don’t hesitate to make reports if you see something off, and please give us as much info as you can in the report so we can make a decision.

    • Fidels_Beard@lemmy.zip
      10·
      3 days ago

      Gosh I feel like a Boomer. What are instances and what are federated and defederated instances and how do you know which is which?

      • ilir@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        What are instances

        Instances are servers in the Fediverse, such as your lemmy.zip. In the case of Lemmy, these are servers on which Lemmy runs.

        what are federated

        Federated is a statement about the connection between instances. lemmy.zip is federated with lemmygrad.ml and vice versa. This means that you can post/comment from lemmy.zip here in lemmygrad.ml, and lemmygrad.ml users can do the same on lemmy.zip.

        defederated

        Defederated means that the administrators of an instance have severed the connection (the federation) to another instance. For example, lemmy.world defederated lemmygrad.ml. If your account were there, you wouldn’t even be able to see this post. For lemmy.world users, it’s as if lemmygrad.ml doesn’t exist.

        You can see which instances lemmy.zip is federated with and which ones the lemmy.zip admins have defederated at https://lemmy.zip/instances.