Hello to all of our new users.
I wish we could all meet in better circumstances. The closing of lemm.ee is a real blow to the fediverse, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the lemm.ee admin team. Lemm.ee was a cornerstone of the lemmy community, and set a high bar for moderation and technical performance.
Finding a home on the fediverse can be tough. Whether you're here to lurk, post, moderate, or contribute in your own way, we’re glad you’ve joined us. Lemmy.zip might not replace what was lost, but we hope it can become a lemmy instance where you can feel at home.
Everyone should receive a welcome PM when they sign up to Lemmy.zip from the ~~ever-present dark lord overseer~~ friendly bot, ZippyBot. However, in case poor Zippy has been overworked and forgotten to send the PM to you, here's some helpful information regarding Lemmy.zip!
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All of our policies can be found at legal.lemmy.zip. This includes our Code of Conduct. Please (please!) have a read of this. Our number 1 rule is
Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.). We absolutely adhere to this. Treat people with respect. -
When you created your account, we set up some "Default Blocks". If you want a more unfiltered Lemmy experience, you can head to your account settings and remove the blocks. You can read more about this in our Welcome Post - they are currently hexbear and lemmgrad.
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We have monthly updates! You can read the latest one here!. We're always open to suggestions if there's anything else you'd like to see in these.
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We have some metrics around federation for the curious among you. The link is in the sidebar or you can click here!
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We have our status page at status.lemmy.zip. In the unlikely event the server becomes sentient and starts a robot uprising, full details will be available here.
Finally, your admin team is myself (Demigodrick), Sami, Druid, and Gazby. Please reach out to any of us if you feel you need help or support with anything. We also have a support email - hello@lemmy.zip.
If you have any questions, please let us know and we'll do our best to answer them.
Thanks,
The Lemmy.zip Admin Team
Out of curiosity, is there a way to see the communities included in the default blocks? I must have registered here before those were introduced, as I don't have them.
They are instance blocks for
hexbear.netandlemmygrad.ml.Ohh, that's what it is. i had that two blocked and many more community before i migrate my account so am a bit unclear what it is.
I was surprised to see that too, as i don't remember that from our previous defed discussions. Maybe I missed it. Since they're just default, must not have been implemented when out accounts were created
I like that it's done that way rather than by defederating, as it lets each user decide, as opposed to someone having decided for them with no way to change that.
Yeah I agree, I didn't know that was an option but it's a fine compromise. I don't usually like "default enabled", opt-outs, though when Facebook or Microsoft do it they're not transparent like this. Usually the vast majority of software users never even review the default settings but Lemmy might be different due to its user base