New to Lemmy

A big welcome to everyone that has joined these past few weeks, we're all very excited to have you joining us! You'll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.

If you feel up for it, go ahead and make a post in this community introducing yourself, asking questions, or asking about topics that you want to find communities for. This community is intended for this purpose!

We have put together some resources to help new users get started.

• How to find communities.
  • Direct links to communities mentioned in this guide:
    • !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
    • !newcommunities@lemmy.world
    • !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
    • !communities@ponder.cat
• Where to find mobile apps
  • Direct links to communities mentioned in this guide:
    • https://www.lemmyapps.com/
    • !lemmyapps@lemmy.world
• Alternative UIs, if you don't like the default

You can also read:

• A quick overview of Lemmy
• A detailed guide on how Lemmy works
• A quick overview of 'the Fediverse'
• Learn about the non-profit that runs this site

These guides were published very recently, and we will be updating them over time. If you find that something is confusing or missing, please let us know and we can improve them further.

Welcome to Lemmy :)

A few common issues:

"I'm not seeing all the content"

Lemmy allows you to filter out content based on the language, but some new users will set this incorrectly in their settings. Please see this post for help. You can also post in either this community, or !languagesettings@lemmy.zip to ask for more help.

"I want to block posts with certain words"

It is possible to use uBlock Origin to do this in the web browser. See this post for detailed instructions.