Hello. My first time here. As the title says, this is my first “thread” creation here. What are some things I should watch out for when I post here? Am I even allowed to create a thread even though this is my first time here? Or are there rules like Karma points, like in Reddit? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. And nice meeting you all!
Welcome! Hope you like beans!
If you browse all, do be aware of what community something is posted in -before- you reply to it. Make it a habit to check. A lot of our communities are for minority/minority-on-Lemmy groups (vegans, trans people, women, etc), or intended to serve people from any number of countries. The posts in these specific-group-serving communities frequently show up in all, just because of the size of this place and how the system works. Don’t comment in English on the German posts which will flood your feed every morning if you sort by top, 6 hrs, and don’t have it blocked (I don’t block them cuz I’m very slowly learning bad German via memes!). Not a woman or trans person? Don’t post in the women’s stuff community. That sort of thing. These rules are usually listed in the side bar for the community, so it’s easy to check before you reply, but you can also ask if you don’t know and can’t find the answer yourself.
Another important thing is IF you are going to use AI, whether image generation or text generation, only post it in AI-friendly communities. If you don’t know if a community is AI-friendly, assume they aren’t until you find out otherwise. A large chunk of comms and users are actively trying to avoid AI content, and most of us don’t want to read a bot post you had generated, so you’ll get downvoted for it. Downvotes don’t really matter, but they do give you a sense of how your comment is received. You should be able to disable downvotes if you don’t want to see them, I think, or it might just be a piefed feature, I’m not sure (it’s fully interoperable with Lemmy, but with better tools).