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

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[–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

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:

  • Don't comment "As a man, ..." in WomensStuff
  • Don't debate the validity of trans folks on Blahaj
  • Don't criticize China in any way on lemmy.ml

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.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    easier to offend

    Also because marginalized people are allowed here. Will be a great lesson in not being a dick!

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    More referring to the fact that being personally attacked is more likely to offend most people than bigotry against a third party.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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    Don’t criticize China in any way on lemmy.ml

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I am also definitely over thirteen, and hope I can use arch soon btw (I need a pc case and power supply?)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You definitely need a power supply.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Definitely. There's 2 supply plugs on my motherboard. Do they both need to be plugged in? I'm really new to pc building, and my parts are retired parts from the old hospital (dad works there, new hospital was recently built) which 90% don't go together, and for every part, there's a 50% chance it's already toast

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Haha FAFO, I guess. The big plug definitely needs to be plugged into the mobo.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

    I'm assuming mobo is motherboard, I'm getting a new power supply so I can power it, because I don't have any on either of my current 2 that match the smaller one (I assume small one is for cpu?)

    It's a MSI B150M Mortar, iirc

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    WomensStuff

    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.

    Don’t criticize China in any way on lemmy.ml

    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".

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Something something shark attacks

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    oh ok

    that is me messing with computers be like: (I'm currently like the 6 hours)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    alright, thanks, also I don't ai, though I have been told once or twice that I sound like it in my writing (it's not ai, I'm just autistic, see you on monday) and I try not to politics, because that makes me stressed and confused, so I think it should be good.

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