I am new here can someone explain how this works? (self.asklemmy)

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So i was earlier at mainstream social media apps, by it was very shitty(dumb people), then I went to reddit, after some while I realised it's also shit(clown people and dumb mods, like no freedom). So now I found this. I have few queries- 1.How does fediverse and lemmy work, couldn't find much on the Internet and AI wasn't much help either. 2.Whats the environment here? 3.What all words and how freedom is allowed here? 4.What are some general rules/unspoken tradition to follow if any? 5.Anything else u wanna tell about

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[-] CombatWombat@feddit.online 3 points 17 hours ago

Mostly, you can’t tell. There are some tells, for instance comments will often start by at mentioning op, and posts to communities will at mention the community in the post body, but oftentimes you just won’t notice. There’s a reasonable chance you’ve already read and/or replied to someone on another service already.

I haven’t used lemmy in a year or so now, but last I knew, lemmy did not support following users directly. Piefed does, and I’m told mbin does as well. And let me tell you, having the capybara every hour account (@capybarahourly@mastodon.social) and the zoo twitter mirror account (@zootweetmirrorbot@mastodon.ai) in my feed has, in fact, greatly improved my experience.

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