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
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
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:
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.
Note that actual serious criticism of China is fine. If you want to critise their support of the Khmer Rouge, or their inaction on Palestine, or things like that, no one will mind. It’s just when all you’re doing is mindlessly reciting vacuous anti-China jingoism that you run into trouble.
I use Arch, by the way.
The only reason I don’t is that I’m too stupid to setup BTRFS snapshots and full disk encryption with LVM on it.
Linux is gay (praise)
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.
I was banned for a meme comparing old cars to modern ones, probably because it said the modern cars are full of computers made in China.
Modlog link?
If I had a nickel for every time someone lied about why (or even whether) they were banned, I’d have like a bunch of nickles.
Probably could even buy something with those.
Also because marginalized people are allowed here. Will be a great lesson in not being a dick!
being marginalized and being offended by stupid shit have nothing to do with one another.
plenty of marginalized people have senses of humor and are thick skinned. it’s mostly the privileged over educated types who get offended by everything and on behave of everyone.
“Why can’t you be a good one and let me say the word around you??”
More referring to the fact that being personally attacked is more likely to offend most people than bigotry against a third party. Not enough people say pointlessly cruel things about men or white people as classes.
where i live, perceived bigotry against a third party is seen as way more offense than personal attacks. like people will go out of their way to twist your words to make them seem offensive because it gives them a reason to be upset.
Can we aim upwards instead of to a shithole?
Thank you~!
Both are true!
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
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.
amen.
If you’re not a woman, it’s likely best to block (as in - ignore) that channel, so you don’t participate by a mistake. The rules there forbid non-female participation.
I get 50/50 upvote/downvote ratio for that, so no. Some of the users are unhinged though on “USA bad so China is good”.
He called the women Females!