Asklemmy

A/S/L should be replied when you join a chat room

you really think someone would do that? go on the internet and tell lies?

Play Team Fortress on weekends. It's cheaper.

Don't believe everything you see. Actually I was taught that about TV, but for some reason the old folks forgot about it being applicable everywhere in life, not just on TV. They also forget about it on TV too.

Make sure you use the right type of search engine for the type of information you want.

Don't feed the trolls

but then I post on lemmy.world and get so so many replies

Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.

Sticking around and "lurking" for a bit before you try to engage with a new community, to learn the local etiquette before you make an ass of yourself. Or at least reading the rules as a bare minimum.

Most of them. Don't believe everything you see, don't give out personal information or real-life pictures... the usual.

only 1 hour a day! And if you accidentally click on a wrong link, the hackers can backtrace you or send the internet police.

The rules for abbreviations.

IIRC YMMV bc IANAL

Netspeak fluency has generally given way to textspeak.

1.0 ratio is the low bar, leech

There always have been the nick picks. But now sometimes there is barely any connection between the post and the comments. Like two people with multiple strokes distributed between them having an angry teams call.

Nothing that happens on the internet matters.

Never disclose any real personal info.

Stick with the gopher protocol, http is too poorly implemented.