Hello, everyone,
This is my first-ever post on Lemmy/the Fediverse. I've just arrived here after being banned from, and ultimately quitting, Reddit; I was on there for 6 years, so I'm essentially starting social media over again. I was told that Lemmy was the closest alternate to Reddit out there, yet I'm still not entirely sure how this works.
A bit about me: I'm 24 years old, I live in Reston, VIrginia (US), I'm near the end of an IT degree at George Mason University, and I am on the autism spectrum (Asperger's syndrome, to be precise). I enjoy literature, gaming (in particular FromSoftware games), and am starting to get really into AI (Claude in particular). Being from the Washington DC area, I also enjoy a good bit of political conversation (center-right/libertarian overall, LibCenter/LibRight on the compass). My father being ex-USAF, I also enjoy discussing geopolitics and military/defense matters.
I came to this particular server/instance/super-community/whatever-this-place-is, and to Lemmy overall, via the Voyager IOS app (it was the first thing that came up in the app store), though I'm making this post on desktop, as it seems Voyager doesn't allow the option, that I can see, to make posts in the first place. As a former Redditor, I'd like some advice as to...well...what to DO to make the most of this social network.
So things are almost impossible to delete here, the modlog is public and activitypub (what lemmy integrates with) is not meant for privacy. I am concerned you revealed too much about yourself in one go like your age, location, where you go to school, hometown, even specifics about your parents. I do caution having better OPSEC on the internet in general. Lemmy is also very leftist, as in left to your democrats, you'll find anarchists/communists/socialists here so you might want to understand these theories before diving into political discussions. There's also not many (if any) who like corporate LLM here. Anyway, good luck here.