Lemmy.world starting guide
Lemmy.world starting guide
(I'm creating a starting guide post here. Have patience, it will take some time...)
Disclaimer: I am new to Lemmy like most of you. Still finding my way. If you see something that isn't right, let me know. Also additions, please comment!
Welcome!
Welcome to Lemmy (on whichever server you're reading this)
About Lemmy
Lemmy is a federated platform for news aggregagtion / discussion. It's being developed by the Lemmy devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet
About Federation
What does this federation mean?
It means Lemmy is using a protocol (Activitypub) which makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact.
- You can search and view communities on remote servers from here
- You can create posts in remote communities
- You can respond to remote posts
- You will be notified (if you wish) of comments on your remote posts
- You can follow Lemmy users/communities on other platforms that also use Activitypub (like Mastodon, Calckey etc) (There's currently a known issue with that, see here
Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server.
A great image describing this, made by @[email protected] : https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY
About Lemmy.world
Lemmy.world is one of the many servers hosting the Lemmy software. It was started on June 1st, 2023 by @[email protected] , who is also running https://mastodon.world, https://calckey.world and others.
A list of Lemmy servers and their statistics can be found at FediDB
Quick start guide
Account
You can use your account you created to log in to the server on which you created it. Not on other servers. Content is federated to other servers, users/accounts are not.
Searching
In the top menu, you'll see the search icon. There, you can search for posts, communities etc.
You can just enter a search-word and it will find the Post-titles, post-content, communities etc containing that word that the server knows of. So any content any user of this server ever interacted with.
You can also search for a community by it's link, e.g. [email protected]. Even if the server hasn't ever seen that community, it will look it up remotely. Sometimes it takes some time for it to fetch the info (and displays 'No results' meanwhile..) so just be patient and search a second time after a few seconds.
Creating communities
First, make sure the community doesn't already exist. Use search (see above). Also try https://browse.feddit.de/ to see if there are remote communities on other Lemmy instances that aren't known to Lemmy.world yet.
If you're sure it doesn't exist yet, go to the homepage and click 'Create a Community'.
It will open up the following page:
Here you can fill out:
- Name: should be all lowercase letters. This will be the /c/
- Display name: As to be expected, this will be the displayed name.
- You can upload an icon and banner image. Looks pretty.
- The sidebar should contain things like description, rules, links etc. You can use Markdown (yey!)
- If the community will contain mainly NSFW content, check the NSFW mark. NSFW is allowed as long as it doesn't break the rules
- If you only want moderators to be able to post, check that checkbox.
- Select any language you want people to be able to post in. Apparently you shouldn't de-select 'Undetermined'. I was told some apps use 'Undetermined' as default language so don't work if you don't have it selected
Reading
I think the reading is obvious. Just click the post and you can read it. SOmetimes when there are many comments, they will partly be collapsed.
Posting
When viewing a community, you can create a new post in it. First of all make sure to check the community's rules, probably stated in the sidebar.
In the Create Post page these are the fields:
- URL: Here you can paste a link which will be shown at the top of the post. Also the thumbnail of the post will link there. Alternatively you can upload an image using the image icon to the right of the field. That image will also be displayed as thumbnail for the post.
- Title: The title of the post.
- Body: Here you can type your post. You can use Markdown if you want.
- Community: select the community where you want this post created, defaults to the community you were in when you clicked 'create post'
- NSFW: Select this if you post any NSFW material, this blurs the thumbnail and displays 'NSFW' behind the post title.
- Language: Specify in which language your post is.
Also see the Lemmy documentation on formatting etc.
Commenting
Moderating / Reporting
Client apps
There are some apps available or in testing. See this post for a list!
Issues
When you find any issue, please report so here: https://lemmy.world/post/15786 if you think it's server related (or not sure).
Report any issues or improvement requests for the Lemmy software itself here: https://github.com/LemmyNet
Known issues
Known issues can be found in the beforementioned post, one of the most annoying ones is the fact that post/reply in a somewhat larger community can take up to 10 seconds. It seems like that's related to the number of subscribers of the community.
I'll be looking into that one, and hope the devs are too.
I made a picture to try and explain a few basic concepts (hopefully) in a simple way, if you think it can help, feel free to link it in the guide, if not it's ok :)
So this is more or less what decentralised means. Man, web3 is real
That's cool! Can I also just put the image in my post?
Sure! Do what you think it's best :)
As someone who used voat for awhiel here are my tips:
- USE this platform, don't use reddit. USE this platform and give it content. Content is basically the same as oxygen you can't deprive it, POST often and comment OFTEN.
- Don't dwell on reddit too much. Voat's only active communities were about shit posting on reddit (they had a /v/MeanwhileOnReddit and a few banned communities and that was it, nobody used any other communities). Find your favorite community and build it. Build just 1 ideally, anymore is too thin. I am building up https://lemmy.world/c/frugal
Voat died because they had the explicit policy of not moderating anything, it was a spamfest, even people crying the didn't want moderation couldn't stand it lol.
One could moderate their own community on voat and ban people from it, but nobody cared to even make communities that were not about either reddit or very grotesque racist content. It eventually died because quite frankly your right, people don't even want to touch a website like that with a proxy because it was way too hot and probably monitored by intel agencies. I know I stopped posting there once it turned into that, wasn't worth the personal risk of my ip being associated with that. But I think it was two things combined. The out of control content, but also the fact nobody used it other than to post extreme content, so if you banned the extreme content you would be left with nothing at all anyway.
Voat still around? That was a cesspool of nazis lmao
Shut down awhile ago.
This is the way
Is there any way to keep the content of the front page from jumping around like crazy while I'm trying to use it? It almost looks like it's updating live while just sitting there, but I can't imagine someone implementing a busy website that way after giving the idea more than two seconds of thought.
So if I understand correctly, there is are multiple Lemmy Servers. Each server has communities which are equivalent to subreddits. You can access communities that were created through other servers.
Is there a benefit to joining a specific Lemmy Server? Or is it the same experience no matter which server you join from?
When I'm on the homepage, I click "All" then sort by Hot. I get a nice list of posts from all over which is really good. But after a few seconds new posts take the top slots of hot and makes just scrolling through unusable. Is there a setting I'm missing for how to keep it from refreshing until I actually hit the refresh button?
As far as I know there's no setting. I think (or hope) it's just a bug, and the devs are working on fixing it.
The website is still kind of buggy, still pretty early stages.
This is fixed with 0.18 iirc, which is gonna be released soon. It’s not a bug, it’s an old feature that’s now annoying because of the increased userbase :)
The part that was confusing to me is even if I choose “All” when searching for communities, it doesn’t find communities I know exist on other instances. This post helped clear it up for me (I have to search for it by link to add it), so thanks! I am worried this is going to trip up a lot of people though.
Having this pinned means I have to scroll past this and the other one e v e r y s i n g l e time I go to my homepage in the Mlem iOS app 😂
How‘s the Mlem app? Does it by any chance hide the comment if you just click on it? That’s one of my favourite UX features on Apollo, not sure if the original crappy Reddit app had this too. I know that you can hide a comment by pressing in the “-“ button next to the person’s alias, but it’s tiny
Try wefwef.app(Clone of Apollo) or Memmy(on TestFlight) as an alternative.
How do I disable new posts from appearing dynamically? Right now i sort posts by whatever but after a short time new posts starts accumulating at the top like this: https://i.imgur.com/RvZ8C73.png
why did that top one appear??
Don't know if this is of any use to anyone, but someone posted link to Lemmy documentation, which includes markdown instructions and more. I've not actually read it all yet, but here's the link anyway: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/02-media.html
Suggestion: I think it might be good to add the https://browse.feddit.de/ to the homepage sidebar.
I hope that somewhere in Lemmy's development a system is added for federating/syncing each instance's Known Community List with each other, so even if no one on lemmy.world is interacting with some.site "yet" lemmy.world knows *about *it and about its communities (just their basic name etc data, not the contents) because lemmy.ml, or whoever, has established a link with some.site and lemmy.world talks to lemmy.ml and gets the list info from them.
as a newcomer to all things federated (I skipped mastodon as I never used twitter), the best piece of advice I have is to not overthink the whole federation idea. Just sign up with an instance or two (I signed up to kbin.social and lemmy.world). See which instance format suits you best. You will (should) be able to interact with all other communities/magazines etc. I started off liking the interface of kbin more, but find myself using lemmy.world. Just start searching for communities, find ones with decent userbases and start interacting. Feel free to down this to oblivion if I have the wrong take on this!
Excellent post! Hello to all the reddit refuges... including myself lol
Hi, thanks for making this instance and post! I think one of the main things that prevented me from grasping the fediverse when I tried mastodon out earlier was not knowing about the common Activitypub protocol. The e-mail analogy that was being used didn't quite click for me, so I'm happy to have a much better understanding for this go around! Here's to greener pastures!
Goodbye Reddit and welcome Lemmy
anyone know of an easier way to discover communities? it'd be nice to have like a list or something rather than searching blindly or going to each different server and seeing what's available
This is my only nitpick so far.
I've seen a couple lists of recommended communities on various instances so far. I'll see if I can dig that up again.
Really appreciating that a lot of help and guides are provided for newer users. That whole fediverse thing can be a bit overwhelming if you are starting to tinker around with it.
Thank you for having us here!
Already feels like home...
And man... It feels good to be here.
Getting great vibes from .world and all of Lemmy so far.
RIF transplant. Happy to be here. Thank you for the tutorial looking forward to start playing catchup
I made a userscript (Lemmy post) which rewrites all links everywhere (not only on Lemmy) to always point to your home instance. It helps a lot with subscribing to communities and in general makes browsing the web and finding Lemmy links nicer.
So I think I've spotted a problem with how Lemmy's federation actually works. I can give you several examples, but I've spotted that there are several 'Technology' communities that originate on different servers. They're definitely different 'communities' because they have quite dissimilar subscriber numbers. That's potentially going to cause a lot of confusion going forward - I really don't want to have to subscribe to two or three of everything...
It's not that dissimilar from what happens already on Reddit with lots of subs with similar names and topics.
Eventually, the best ones will prevail.
Yeah this is exactly how Reddit was back in 2010. It was the Wild West back then and similar subs fought to survive. Eventually the one with the best content will win out!
This is not a problem, it's a feature. It is comparable to reddit having some subs about the same topic, only with different names. Just give it time and it will sort itself out. The best community(ies) will prevail. Subscribe and post and create content for now. Let's kill reddit.
exactly! i assume it's the intent - different hosts have different standards and vibes. but it is very strange and seems counterproductive. i assume someone intelligent has figured out why this is better
I think* the basic idea is that there'd be specialized hosts/instances for certain broader topics, OR just allowing to create close "communities" by disallowing cross-intance interactions.
It could be confusing for a while, but I think in time things will mostly normalize in one way or another and the concept of "rival subreddits" were already a thing.
*: I'm also new here, so all of this is just conjecture
Hello ! For those like me that do not understand the sentences « Lemmy is a federated platform for news aggregation » nor « it means Lemmy is using a protocol which makes it possible for al Lemmy servers to interact », there is a good explanation here: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances (Link from https://join-lemmy.org/instances)
Like emails companies (gmail, outlook,…) you have multiple Lemmy server (Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml,…) than can communicate ( you can send an email from Gmail to Outlook).
So by register on one Lemmy server, you can interact on all Lemmy servers ( depending on server configuration, still) and then have access to multiple communities (aka subreddit)
This rundown is great @[email protected]
Thanks for making this post! It answered a lot of my questions, but I still have a few more. So I made my account with this server, Lemmy.world, and I can connect with any other server/community I want to with this account. Awesome. What happens though if this server were to be taken offline? Would my account still exist? Is there anything that would be lost aside from the content on this server?
If the server would be gone so would all the users and content here.
If lemmy.world would be gone, so would your account as well.. This is the same for email providers, reddit and every other platform out there. If your email provider would be gone, so would your account. But since it is decentralized, it would not be a total blackout because many people use other email providers!
So, if lemmy.world would be gone, your account would be gone, but many others would not. Some communities would be gone, but many others would not!
Saved this for later. I feel like this will be really useful to sober me
It looks like Lemmy.world communities do not get regularly indexed on search engines. Is this because of the system architecture, or is it for some other reason?
am i supposed to be able to post comments? i verified my email and all
It appears you were successful.
I can see this comment
I'm having trouble finding a Lemmy community from another instance. For example [email protected] on the Jerboa app. I even added the bang "!" but that didn't work either.
On a tangential note, how do I follow people from across the fediverse, for example Mastodon?
I don't think following is possible on Lemmy. It does work the other way around.
Thanks for this post, @[email protected]. I’ve setup my own instance and am enjoying the lemmy experience so far.
At least the latest RC cut the post and save time in half, for me. That’s a measurable improvement. It definitely must be due to server load, as posting and saving to [email protected] from my instance seems pretty snappy.
I see in this post it says that Lemmy communities can be followed from a Mastodon instance. Can the opposite be done too? Could I follow a Mastodon account via Lemmy.world?
Sorry if this is a really silly question, the Fediverse is still very new to me!
No I don't think so.
Ah okay, thanks for letting me know
Just joined. I am trying to find my way around here and trying to figure out how things work. Last time I felt like this was my first day in the army. Lol.
@ruud i think a good thing to mention would be copying the URL of a post or a comment to fetch and interact with it from your own instance.
Hi all. I hope this is the right place for getting help. I have a question, how do I subscribe to communities not on Lemmy.world? For example, a community on lemmy.ml
I created my account here because Lemmy.ml is suggesting to use alternate instances but I want to subscribe to some communities there but I get the error "not logged in" because I don't have an account there.
Thanks!
Fuck reddit, long live Lemmy!
Could you update this to point out one of the major differences that most Redditors won't expect?:
When using ActivityPub Upvotes and Downvotes are public to every service that reads into it (such as Kbin).Hello, world!
Thanks this helps a lot. Coming over since they massacred by boy rif
Is there any phone app for Lemmy? Or would it be different websites for different Lemmy worlds?
Yes, it's called Jerboa. Using it now. Shockingly decent for being in alpha.
Thanks! yea its looking surprisingly great...now to figure out how the fediverse organizes its communities... Is each instance a different version / server? with each instance having its own communities (subreddits) or each instance is the community grouping?
On a side note, its kind of fun and exhilarating how probably millions of people are trying to figure out this system at the same time
Completely agree!
I just found this list of apps: https://join-lemmy.org/apps Also, why want an app? I never understood when the website is fine.
What does "Subscribe Pending" mean?
I clicked the Subscribe button on [email protected] but I get that yellow pending button instead of the green "joined". Is it because of the heavy load?
Not a big problem, I can read and post there, but I was curious.
Thanks for all the info i feel like i finally understand. Hopefully people figure out how to migrate because a federated network of sites is much better and its about time everyone moved on from reddit!
Thanks for the sticky. This all feels very wild west!
Is there a way to collapse this post or hide it now that I’ve read it? It seems to be the first post in my feed, always.
That's because it's pinned, it's like sticky posts on reddit.
Better to stay it this way, it would be lost in the flood otherwise and new people wouldn't find it.
Yet another Reddit refugee here! Thanks for the very informative post! I'm liking what I see so far 👍
Also, I know it's typed out somewhere, but I can't find it and couldn't understand it anyway. Could someone explain to me as if I'm technologically useless and just a bit dense generally, how to connect with communities on other instances? Something about copying links and pasting them somewhere? I'm on jerboa if that means anything.
PSA: I would suggest checking out https://browse.feddit.de/ instead of Google, when looking for existing communities. @[email protected] may want to add this!
IME Google doesn’t necessarily index communities properly, and even if they do, they’re not always easy to find on a general-purpose search engine.
Thanks so much for this guide! i was not aware on how the accounts worked and I created the same account on multiple servers, is that a problem now?
If I understand how lemmy works, then when you make an account named “bob” on lemmy.world, then your full username is something like “[email protected]”.
So if you made another “bob” on somewhere.else, then that account’s full username would be something like “[email protected]”.
If I’ve got the right idea, then no it’s not a problem. Although you might want to consider deleting extra accounts, b/c these servers are still pretty small and 1 more account on one means 1 more to support
Thanks for the advice, will take me a while to get used to this, haha.
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the show_read_posts filter of the API? I see that it's implemented, but I can't find the option anywhere in the web UI.
Thanks for the guide. Here's to a new future.
Hi, is having a community flagged NSFW sufficient, or will every individual post also need to be marked as NSFW at time or posting?
Every post needs to be flagged I think. Maybe you could try with a test post.
Yeah cool, I tested and it doesn’t auto NSFW every new post. I’ll just ask people to flag NSFW for every post that’s required and delete if they don’t. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this guide.ive used mastodon in the past, but it's been a while. I'm not really a fan of the short-blurb content and prefer a forum-format, so here I am!
goodbye reddit, hello lemmy!
Can we get this pinned to the top? I think K everyone needs to see this or some version of this
What is the ideal resolution for a community banner so as not to unnecessarily 'weigh it down' with a super high-resolution image?
May I suggest to add a link to donate in order to contribute to the financial efforts behind Lemmy.world? @[email protected]
How do we add the Instance to lemmur? Everything I try it just says instance not found.
Edit: nevermind, I found jeroba
I can't seem to create an account on lemmy.world directly (though I appear to be able to access via lemmy.ca). When I enter all my details on the sign up and click the button - it just spins for ever. I have tried a few times a day over the last 3 days. Any idea what could be the problem? I was able to sign up on beehaw and lemmy.ca with no issues. Is it a known issue - or are sign ups on hold?
Would love to bail on Reddit if possible
So can I not have my home page only be the communities I subscribe to by default?
You can change the default to 'Subscribed' in your Settings (click your name in the top right, then Settings
Don't forget to Save your changes.
this is great, thanks for this - going to have a good read through over the blackout for the next few days
I hope it catches on. I remember back in 2015 or so, a similar thing was going on and people wanted to migrate to Voat, but it turned into a racist hellhole.
Thank you, i was one of the reddit refugees and very confused
This helped a lot
I don't know why you were at 0 votes for this, but thanks for taking this on! I think a lot of folks will benefit.
Edit: vote count is probably incorrect and just due to being from a newer instance!
My SO is having a login issue, that I'm not experiencing myself. Everytime she closes Jerboa, it logs her out. She will end up as "anonymous" so you have to go into Settings and under Accounts, her account is not visible. She's gotta Add New Account everytime to input the account she already created and added. Hmm
Anyone else experiencing this? I am not and I'm wondering if it's user error on my part. I been using lemmy since last night and love it, I'm just trying to get her settled over here. Thanks!
Jerboa's been working for me. I wonder if it's a background battery / processing permission issue.
Yea I'm thinking it's a hardware issue tbh. Tech is not my Forte lol
I think there was an update recently and it seems to do that to me too now when I tried it. But the mobile web version is better anyway for now.
That's what I've heard. Haven't tried the web ver. Yet. Apparently I enjoy a fair bit of suffering...to spice things up? 😉
Firefox on android doesn't let me login to lemmy. I have AdGuard installed and the add-on switched on. What could be the solution?
Edit: I haven't solved the problem, but after some time trying some things here and there, I think I know what's the issue. I have both Chrome and Firefox installed. I was using Lemmy on Chrome, so I tried to login in Firefox, and the issue started. I logged out on Chrome, and tried here on Firefox, it worked. TLDR: you can't have the same account logged in on both Chrome and Firefox.
Can we unsticky this post personally? I have to scroll through the guide each time I get on lemmy. And it’s quite long.
Yes I will put a link on the homepage
ty for this
Thank you! You are a legend for setting this up
This is excellent, very helpful! I added a link to it in https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/#background
Another ex redditor here!
Bookmarking this. I may try to actually contribute something to these communities once I figure it all out. I like to kearn new stuff. Thanks for the info!
This is great. I've only known of the existence of the fediverse for half a day but I already can see this is the future.
Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to test whether I could post a comment here.
And a reply?
Thank you so much for the info to the newbies! What client do you recommend, Lemmur or Jerboa for Lemmy? Easy and privacy friendly. I'm trying Lemmur and just made my account, with same nick as on Reddit. I will save this post!
For what it's worth, i just used the "add to Home Screen" feature on my phone's web browser (from my instance homepage) and it's working great. Indistinguishable from a normal "app" experience. In my case Safari on iOS but i doubt it matters.
Edit: looks like this:
Yeah works great too of that way!! I did with Brave too to can create communities, is there a lot of work to do in this massive exodus :)
I already tried both which I have installed, and Jerboa is more intuitive, beauty and similar to Reddit. Sadly seems the notifications don't work. Like Lemmur too but Jerboa is better.
In my Linux Mint I will use it using Nativefier, making an app which works with Electron and doesn't need any browser even. Later you create the desktop launcher, with the icon, and you have a really good way of using it!
Great initiative!
We've just published a polish translation of this, with some minor changes; https://szmer.info/post/356383
How do i unblock someone? It was an accident
In your settings, there's a Blocks tab.
Thanks. Idk how i didnt see that
Given that every instance pretty much has a copy of the whole fediverse on its own, isn't that incredibly inefficient? I can imagine as the fediverse grows the amount of storage required for each instance becomes too huge, maybe resulting in each instance needing to focus solely on certain groups of topics? Storing all that data can't be cheap nor environmentally friendly.
Hope that someone creates a Lemmy view much like old.reddit - way too spread out for me right now. Please, someone build this. :)
Some people are starting custom themes that you can use with browser plugins like Stylus, it will take some time, but I'm sure in time we'll have a lot of options.
Any interest in a comm for either MCU or Doctor Who?
Thanks for the post! This was a great read for a new user like me.
I'd really like to have the ability to disable embedded images in comments. I want to see only text, not 50 memes, RES had this as a feature.
Could someone help me add my lemmy community to kbin? I've been trying to add [email protected] to kbin.social but putting it into the search finds nothing. Going to kbin.social/m/[email protected] just gets 404 not found error.
Can I hide this post somehow?
I will un-pin this when the major inflow of users is over, it's already getting less.
Are the algorithms that determine how our "front pages" are populated set at each Lemmy instance or by the protocol as a whole? Aside from blocked instances.
Can any posts be hidden? I haven't found that feature yet. I've looked on both the web version and jerboa.
that info graphic was great! thanks for posting this
I changed the screenshots in the picture to a light theme, I saw someone saying buttons are difficult to read on dark, could you please replace it in the guide? thanks :)
Done
Hi,
I noticed that thumbnails of links are not showing here https://lemmy.world/c/world, whereas same news link posted on https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews is working fine, why is that?
Here is an example of the same news link on both communities:
https://lemmy.world/post/260407 (no thumbnail)
https://lemmy.ml/post/1317159 (with thumbnail)
Thanks
Is there a karma system?
On the default Lemmy web UI, no. But some apps aggregate an account's votes and call them "Score", so it does exist but not many can see it.
That's good, since opinions can be posted without fear of mass down-voting.
Thank you!
When I browse communities and switch to allI am able to find some off server communities that I would like to join, but when I go to the link, I am unable to subscribe. The subscribe button doesn't seem to work. Is this because the server doesn't federate with the other one? I am trying to add some nature/science related communities from the https://mander.xyz server.
That should all work, but maybe there's some slowness on 1 of the servers. Please refresh to see if it has worked, if not, try again.
Thanks! It worked later on when I tried again.
What's upp I have landed. Thanks for the post!
I created the [email protected] community and dried to share it with another community on lemmy.ml: and apparently they just get a 404 at https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected], it's been that way for quite some time, am I doing something wrong? Is federation breaking down?
Is the registration closed on lemmy.world? It does not seem to go through when signing up. I know you can choose another instance but I just thought it could be confusing when sign-up still looks open and is encouraged in this guide.
Edit: Resolved. Apparently there was some delay in the server. Got the verification email now. While I was retrying without the email, on the sign-up and login pages, the loading wheel just kept spinning. But all is fine now. Thanks!
This really helped me understand Lemmy and Mastodon so much better. I get it know. Now it just learning where to go to find things I did with Reddit.
Has anybody an idea how to get the thumbnails to work properly?
I the post here it says once using the 'Upload Image' function, that the image will show in the post and as thumbnail. The latter doesn't seem to work for me on Jerboa.
The only way that worked for me so far was to link the uploaded image (via the button) by adding the url as
to the body of the post.Thanks for this. Will take some getting used to, but I like this decentralized concept much better than what Reddit is.
What does create remote post or comment mean? Does this mean we can post onreddit from here or something?
It means that any other Fediverse tool can post to Lemmy
Thank you so much @[email protected]! This is so helpful! :D
Is there currently some problem with the federation? I have some posts showing up here, that I can’t find on sopuli.xyz directly. For example this one: https://lemmy.world/post/300681
Maybe I’m missing something but I can’t figure out how to comment on others comments? How do you reply to others, not just the main thread? Thank you in advance
Edit: Figured it out. Think it’s the Wefwef “app”, it just doesn’t have an option, that I can find yet, to comment/reply to others comments/replies
As a lemmy.world user how can I block posts and communities from a whole other instance?
I don't think you can as a user. The instance you're logged in to can defederate from the other instance but it's not something that you can do yourself AFAIK.
You can't block instances (servers) as a user, only the admins can, but you can block communities and users.
Thanks for the guide.
So I’m a total newbie to this whole thing, and I’m sure I’m just being stupid, but I’m running into a weird problem. There’s a community on feddit.de that I’d like to participate in ([email protected]), and I found it successfully in the lemmy.world search, but when I go in via the search result, it doesn’t show any content. However going to the community directly on via the URL — https://feddit.de/c/germany — I see a post with a bunch of comments.
Is there something I’m missing here? I can subscribe and post via lemmy.world but it seems like I’m the only one in the community.
Thanks all! I’m really looking forward to getting a handle on this…
Thanks for making this post. It really helped me get a good overview of things. I hope it develops with a more glass half full attitude than the "I'm sorry I can't do that Dave" attitude that Reddit has adopted.
thank you very much! this was very helpful for me.
I created a community ([email protected]) and made a test post to it, and the image only shows up if you click into the post, not as a thumbnail in the community page, instead it shows the markup of the url, am I doing something wrong?
Gunners
Thanks
One. Near the top there's a missing “)”:
“• You can follow Lemmy users/communities on other platforms that also use Activitypub (like Mastodon, Calckey etc) (There’s currently a known issue with that, see here” <-- Missing end “)”.
Two. Is the “Known issues” listed at the bottom still relevant after your fix?
Three. Why can I see an article on Lemmy.world (where my account is located, if that matters), and can upvote/downvote, yet cannot comment? I've logged out and back in, but that didn't fix the issues.
Polskie tłumaczenie, z drobnymi zmianami: https://szmer.info/post/356383
Thank you very much for this post! It helped me a lot. I suggest caution with using browse.feddit.de though. They do not include all instances - like for example my home instance reddthat.com - you might miss a great community because of that.
EDIT: Now reddthat.com is back on the browser again - Instances could get dropped due to long response times or rate-limiting issues, so depending on the time you search you may get different results on the Community Browser.
Are there any more guides for Moderators and about editing communities? e.g. can images and banners be edited after creation? Where exactly are the mod tools options to found as a moderator? I'm very new to this and there is very little that is obvious to me.
This basic guide is very helpful but where can I find more? thanks in advanceThanks for this!
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the show_read_posts filter of the API? I see that it's implemented, but I can't find the option anywhere in the web UI.
Thank you for this helpful post!
Not sure if this was raised already, but how come og:images don't show up on article posts in lemmy.world?
Hi, thanks for the post. I migrated here immediately after Boost started not working well any more.
Thank you for this post @Ruud. I'm a Reddit refugee like a lot of new users today, and I didn't quite understand what Lemmy was until I read your post. Now it makes complete sense.
Hello! I signed up for an account with a different username, but I believe I input the wrong email. Is there a way to get this fixed as I would like to use the first account I created. Thanks!
Helpfull!
Thank you for this guide! Helped me alot!
Would it be an idea to add the alternative interfaces in this post?
New users: this instance is too large, please join a smaller instance.
please add turkish language
