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  • spj_hook
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hey everyone. I just migrated from reddit and wanted to say hello. I was on the wetshaving sub for several years but I gave myself a new (but slightly related) username when I came here, so people are likely to not recognize me.

    Anyway, is there anything I should know about using lemmy that differs from reddit? I see that SOTD posts and questions still go in their daily threads, anything else I should know?

    (Also, I apologize if this question doesn’t belong here. I see that there’s both a Wednesday Daily Question Thread and a Welcome Wednesday, and this seemed the better place to post my comment. But let me know if there’s somewhere else this should go.)

    • merikusMA
      3·
      1 year ago

      Welcome! I decided to break out these two threads (Welcome Wednesday and DQT) to make creating the bot easier, honestly.

      We tried to set this up as similar to the /r/WetShaving subreddit as possible. The main difference is that, since this is a server, we can create other subLemmys if we want. So some people have created ones for, say, !straight_razors@sub.wetshaving.social. But we’re trying to keep all of the main sub stuff here, and as similar to Reddit as possible.

      Hope you enjoy this experiment!

      • spj_hook
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks! I’m slowly learning my way around.

        Question about formatting the SOTDs, does lemmy work the same as reddit in that regard (eg using *s to get words in bold, and two spaces after a line, etc)?

        • WegianWarrior
          4·
          1 year ago

          The mark-up is very similar to Reddit, I’ve yet to find any major differences.

          If you use the web interface, there is a row of little buttons underneath the text box that you can use to pick bold, italics, link, etc. I found it useful :)

          • spj_hook
            1·
            1 year ago

            Good to know, thanks! I’ll try it out on my next shave tomorrow.