Reddit is starting to suck more and more everyday so here I am. A couple of questions -

  1. I created my account at lemmy.ca, but most people I have seen have lemmy.world accounts. Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?

  2. Reddit has an offical subreddit for Reddit news. Does Lemmy have any offical communities?

  3. On Reddit, you can’t post on some subreddits if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Are there any rules like that on Lemmy?

Thank you!

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    1. For the most part, you don’t miss anything. The only exception would be if there is a server that has defederated (basically disconnected) from your instance. I’d say you made a good choice with .ca since it has very few big important instances that are defederated from it.

    2. There are some communities on lemmy.ml (the instance run by the devs) that specifically are there for interacting with the devs. [email protected] is the main place for questions about using lemmy. Whatever client you’re using should also have its own community for questions about the client itself. Generally you shouldn’t ask those sorts of questions on asklemmy communities.

    3. Global karma isn’t a thing in the lemmyverse. It’s not impossible to calculate it (by adding up the karma of each post and comment on an account), but it’s not a primary statistic tracked by the software itself.