Welcome!

Some tips:

• You can block other users, other communities, and other instances yourself; you don't have to wait for the mods or admins to do that for you

• If a mod or an admin of an instance choose to block certain things that you disagree with, you can sign up for another instance with your same name, assuming nobody's taken it; you won't be able to transfer your comments, votes, or posts though; there's been feedback given to the Lemmy devs about this

• Search by Everything and Active to see new posts show up in your feed daily

• There's lots of diverse opinions on Lemmy, but they tend to concentrate around politics and tech; maybe consider starting your own community or instance if there's something here you want to see!

• To use the Discord analogy, Lemmy instances are Discord communities, Lemmy communities are Discord channels, and users are just users; we'll often write c/Whatever to refer to a community, but due to the Federated nature of Lemmy, you may find a community like c/Politics on multiple instances (like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml); not sure if the Lemmy devs have a fix for this