Sorry, I completely forgot to announce [email protected] here when I launched it.

Now trading is here and we're having fun swapping cards. Come check us out!

Bonus Links

[email protected]

https://walledgarden.xyz/c/pokemonTCGM

Summary: Join [email protected]

Hey everyone! A few of us have recently been trying to drive activity at [email protected], so if you're a boardgame lover, come over and join us there! We have blackjack! (Hookers not included)

TLDR: Join [email protected]

[email protected] or Norway

Did you know Rudolph the Reindeer (and all reindeer in general) has no upper teeth?

Join us for beautiful pics of auroras, reindeer teeth trivia, and grousings about grocery prices! Whether you're a born Norwegian, immigrant, tourist, or just think reindeer are cute, this is the place to be.

(Sven says hi!)

This is a community intended to collect resources and build a movement to get people off of legacy social media. If you have some people you'd like to switch over, or are willing to post about Fedi on your old accounts, please come check it out:

[email protected]

[email protected]

After the original mod being inactive for so long, i've asked the db0 mods for me to take this community. So, welcome back!

Rules

This includes the instance rules of dbzer0, which can be tl;dr'd to: no right wing nutjobs or tankies are allowed. As for the community rules:

1. Be nice
2. No bigotry/prejudice
3. No tankies/right wingers
4. Don't promote proprietary software
5. Stay on topic
6. No crypto
7. Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
8. If you post news exclusive to a country please name it. (This isn't a bannable rule, but just a recommendation :) )

Why not:

Lemmy.ml

.ml is infamous for banning pretty much anyone they please. This community, while left libertarian, will allow conflicting viewpoints.

Lemmy.world

.world is too big, and has centralized a decentralized community. It simply does not fit, and is a net negative for the fediverse as a whole.

It also blocks VPNs, which goes against the essence of a privacy community.

Why dbzer0

Dbzer0 is stable, relaxed with the rules, and perfect for a topic like this.

Looking to do some nostalgic time-traveling via music? Look no further.

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

These are all older communities and are doing well in their own right, but they've been unmoderated and on autopilot for the last year and a half, so I'm looking to cultivate and grow them. Would like to get them active enough again to do weekly (or even monthly) roll-ups of the posts into playlists, have theme/genre days, etc. Suggestions are welcome.

I'm also looking for an additional mod or two for at least 60s and 70s; possibly even someone to transfer those communities to. I accepted those since the same mod who has been MIA since June 2023 also owned those. So, if those are your musical era and you want to help grow them, please let me know.

[email protected]

I made this community as I wanted to support the nations that have the most accountable democracies, the strongest labour practices and the highest unionization rates of the world.

There are a lot of great vampire franchises and series out there but most of them wouldn’t be able to carry an entire Lemmy community by themselves. So I created [email protected] as a place to discuss any and all vampire media. Come join!

Chad McTruth's Truth Community for Freeze Peach Patriots

[email protected]

lemmy.world/c/chadmctruthstruth

lots of folks have blocked chad because they didnt understand him so im sharing this on his behalf in case anyone wants to give him a second or third or several more chances

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29024390

Window Managers

[email protected]

This is an attempt to revive the idea of [email protected] but to include all kinds of window managers.

The community’s purpose is to band together users, new users and soon to be users of different window managers with the purpose to help each other out on Lemmy.

As of now I have been subscribing to respective release feeds and the likes to receive fresh updates and post them here, and also some beginner guides I have been brewing for some time now.

Feel free to post anything related and even barely related.

Not expecting this community to grow large as window managers are a comparatively a niche topic, but at least to keep it real and organic.

For any questions or ideas you can send me direct message.

Hey there, we are trying to locate fans of thrash metal on the Fediverse! We discuss, post, and share music or anything relating to thrash metal (includes speed metal, crossover and fusion genres). We have multiple members active DAILY, and plus more users engaging in discussions.

We would love to hear whatever great thrash tunes you listen to! Join us here: [email protected]

[email protected]

New place to post anything about hip-hop culture from Spain. Sapanish is the preferred language, but english is welcome too.

[email protected]

Thought I'd kick off a LCHF / Keto community to complement the existing communities of [email protected] and [email protected]

LCHF diets are only prescriptive on carbohydrate consumption, so inside of LCHF you can have

• Plant Based Food / Vegetarian / Vegan
• Animal Sourced Food / Carnivore
• Omnivore (a little bit of everything)

The purpose of this community is casual discussion, lifestyle, interests, recipes, cooking ideas, debugging, etc.

Salvete omnes! fxomtus sum. Haec communitas de lingua Latina in lemmy est.

A general place, from memes, questions, personal stories, jokes; As long as it's about Latin!

I created this community after noticing the lack of Latin speakers on Lemmy (and linguistics communities in general) I don't want it to just be for Latin speakers, I also want it to help beginners. That's why I've started creating a Latin guide for the community, a collection of resources and tips to help learn Latin.

[email protected]

Fruor!

Dedicated to antisocial behavior of social media corporations, censorship, algorithmic bias, filter bubbles, privacy and psychological effects of mainstream social media.

Articles like:

• Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
• Meta dumps fact-checkers
  -Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

[email protected]
https://feddit.online/c/[email protected]

Hey fellow Lemmings,

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of AI News Summary Bot, a project that brings you News summary! The bot is now live on our community at [email protected].

The bot is still in its early stages, and I'm excited to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to improve it. Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.

Repository: If you're interested in contributing or exploring the code behind the bot, you can find the repository at https://github.com/muntedcrocodile/ai_news_bot.

Donations: If you're interested in donating to allow me to spend more time developing please do: monero:8916FjDhEqXJqX9Koec9WaZ4QBQAa6sgW6XhQhXSjYWpQiWB42GsggEh73YAFGF86GU2gEE1TTRdWSspuMgpWGkiPHkgBTX

Stay informed, and let's build this community together!

[email protected]

A place to discuss metabolic health research, papers, lectures, diets, etc.

I've been seeding the community with my lecture notes, videos, and papers of interest. It's a really deep and fascinating topic!

Metabolic Health is the field of both metabolism, but the entire energy delivery mechanisms inside the body.

Don't be shy! Half of medical knowledge today is wrong... we just don't know which half it is.

A nice and welcoming place to discuss anything related to keeping a journal, a diary, a planner, a bullet journal, art/junk journal.
Paper and digital alike.

[email protected]

[email protected]

a place for general comedic nonsense. [almost] anything goes as long as its even tangentially funny. you may see reposts. you may see old, archaic internet shit. you may see your mom

it would behoove us all to distribute content across the 'verse

i think dr evil said it best:

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.

Got a burning question you want to ask someone from the US like "Why is the imperial system superior" or "Why is Texas"? Join us over at [email protected] ([email protected] for the mbin users) and find out the definitive answer. You can also just chat if you don't have questions, because this is the land of the free and there are no laws 🇺🇸🦅 (there are actually, please be nice)

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/49339477

Come and Enjoy Pics of Capybara [email protected]

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Both have pinned threads

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/49125337

Here is what I found so far:

Pokemon:

• [email protected] (active)
• [email protected] (active)
• [email protected] (somewhat active)

Pokemon Pocket: [email protected] (new & active)

Pokemon Go: [email protected] (active)

Pokemon Cards: [email protected] (inactive, needs love)

Pokemon Memes: [email protected] (inactive, needs love)

Image source, supposedly it's based on a lemming**___**

This is our attempt to explain Lemmy, without actually getting into federation, activity pub, Lemmy, and all those technical things that a lot of people find frightening and complicated. I thought some of you doing the hard work of building out your own communities and convincing people to move from other places might find it of use. Please feel free to edit to be less screen-reader specific, and perhaps add some screenshots, if you'd like to use it for your own servers or communities. Or just use it verbatim; either way is fine! We'd love a link, though. Also, if you know any blind folks who could benefit from Lemmy, don't hesitate to send them our way. Anyone who can use their screen reading software well enough to browse basic websites shouldn't have any trouble. Note: the original post was editted with suggestions from the comments. Please visit the link for the canonical version.

cross-posted from: https://rblind.com/post/3377057

Welcome to rblind.com, a community for blind folks and friends! This is one of the communities affiliated with the OurBlind network. Here, you can interact with both blind and sighted folks alike, in an open, friendly, environment. Just as with Reddit, you can, and are encouraged, to upvote and downvote posts and comments, post your own links and topics in communities, and participate in discussions with others.

Signing Up

As with any community, the first step to participating is to sign up for an account. To do so, you can use the "sign up" link, located in the navigation landmark. You'll be presented with a form that asks for a username, email, password, and asks a question about why you want to join. You'll also be asked if you'd like to see NSFW (not safe for work) content.

Don't worry! We approve all accounts fairly quickly. There's no need to over-think the "why do you want to join" question. We do things this way in order to keep out the spammers, without having to use a captcha or some other inaccessible challenge.

Logging in and first steps

Once your account is approved, you can log in! The first thing you'll want to do is to visit the settings link, and go over the available settings. Once successfully logged in, you'll find the settings link in the navigation menu. Here, you can do things like set your display name, select what languages you'd like to see posts in (we strongly recommend keeping undetermined selected), enable two-factor login if you'd like, change the visual theme of the website, and more. After adjusting the settings, you can press save and the changes will be applied.

Finding Communities

Once you've gotten your settings the way you like them, it's time to find some communities to join! To do so, find and activate the "communities" link. You'll be presented with a page containing several controls and a table containing a list of communities.

By default, you'll be seeing what are called "local" communities. A local community is a community that is run by us here at OurBlind. You'll want to make sure that you're subscribed to blind main, and research. To do so, find the table containing the list of communities. Column four of each row will contain a button labeled "subscribe" that will allow you to subscribe to the community, or "joined" if you're already subscribed.

But RBlind is more than just a forum for talking to other blind people! It wouldn't be much fun if we were isolated in our own bubble, without being able to interact with the rest of the world, would it? That's why RBlind allows you to join other communities, run by other people. To list these communities, find the set of radio buttons above the table on the communities page. These radio buttons give you three options:

• subscribed: only show the communities you're subscribed to
• local: only show local communities run by us
• all: show all of the communities that RBlind knows about

You'll also find a combo box that allows you to change how the communities are sorted, and a text field that will let you search for a particular community.

For now, set the radio buttons to "all". You don't need to click the search button, or do anything else. As soon as you change the radio button, the table of communities automatically updates.

Now, you should find a table with 50 rows. Just under the table is a "next" button, that will load the next page of communities. You'll notice that under the "community name" column, the names look a bit like email addresses. This is telling you what the community is called, and what website runs it. For example, [email protected] is the Shower Thoughts community (similar to the one on Reddit), and it's run by a website called lemmy.world. However, you don't need to worry too much about that! You can subscribe to the community, and make posts and comments, just like you would in a local community. The only thing to be aware of is that just like on Reddit, different communities are run by different people. That means each community will have its own rules and customs. We at OurBlind only set the rules for the communities that show up when you set the radio buttons to "local".

Interacting with posts and comments

Congratulations! Now you've signed up for an account, subscribed to some local communities, and even found some interesting remote communities to join! It's time to start reading and interacting with posts.

To do so, find and click the first link in the navigation menu, directly below the jump to content button. Your screen reader will probably read it as "current RBlind" or similar. This link will take you to your homepage.

Your homepage consists of a list of posts, each marked with a heading level one. Above the heading for each post, you'll find an upvote button, the number of votes the post currently has, a downvote button, and perhaps a link (if one was included) or an expand button for images (if the post has an image). Under each post you'll find information about the post, like who posted it, where it was posted, and the number of comments it has.

If you found the post of value, you can press upvote. If it was off-topic, low-effort, or spam, you can downvote. If you'd like to view and participate in the comment section, you can activate the heading level 1 link. If the post has a link associated with it, you can cursor up once from the heading level 1 to find and press enter on it.

the comment section

Hopefully, after browsing your homepage for a while, you've eventually found an interesting post that you'd like to participate in. To load the comments, activate it's heading level one, and the comments section will load.

The comments show up in a set of nested lists. Just as with posts, they have upvote and downvote buttons. You'll also find a "collapse" button above some comments. If you're uninterested in a particular part of the discussion, you can use this button to collapse the thread of comments, hiding it. If you'd like to reply, you can press the reply button, and a text box will become available for you to type your comment. If you'd like to post a new comment, you can use the text box above the list of existing comments.

On this page you'll also find a set of radio buttons that control how the comments are sorted. "Hot" is the default, recommended option. However, you can also sort by "new" to see comments in order, "top" to see the most popular comments, and several others.

If someone replies to your post or comment, you can find this by visiting the "inbox" link in the navigation menu.

Making A New Post

Congratulations! You've read your feed of posts, interacted with some, and maybe even made a comment or two of your own. You're well on your way to becoming an RBlind expert! But what about when you have something you want to share?

Well, that's also easy! First, find and activate the "create post" link in the navigation menu. The create post form will load. In this form, you need to enter a title and a body for your post. You can also optionally select a language, add a link, an image, and a thumbnail. You also need to select what community your post will be part of. When you open the community combo box (by cursoring down on it), you'll be given a long list of communities. However, you can also shift tab to a search box that will allow you to filter the list. For example, if you wanted to find our main community, you could type "blind" in the search box, tab back to the list, and select "blind main".

Mobile Apps

Now that you're an RBlind veteran, you might want an app to better use the website on your phone. Currently, the app we recommend is called "thunder for lemmy". It's available for free in both the IOS and Android app stores. When it asks you what server you want to log into, you need to make sure and enter rblind.com. We also recommend going into the Thunder settings, and adjusting them to your taste.

Thunder is also available for users of Mac OS who have arm-based macs. However, currently those of us on Windows and Linux are best to use the rblind.com website.

Can't I post from Mastodon?

Yes, sort of. Currently you can make new posts to rblind.com from Mastodon, and reply to existing ones. However, you can't upvote or downvote posts, see how many votes a post or comment has, or subscribe to other communities. So we do recommend making an account on rblind.com directly for most purposes. However, if you want to interact from Mastodon or other "fediverse" software, the usernames to interact with are @[email protected] and @[email protected].

Conclusion

We hope this brief introduction to the RBlind website has been helpful to you! If you have any questions, feel free to post to blind main, post in the comments here, or reach out to us for support.