Tips for using Lemmy?
Tips for using Lemmy?
Now that is a substantial amount of users on here now (from a particular source that looks awfully like Lemmy but is very corporate ewww). What are some tips and tricks for using lemmy or the fediverse in general to help those new users to get accustomed to this platform?
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To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right "Home" icon and input your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)... now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.
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Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777
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Change your default "Sort Type" to "Subscribed + New" (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.
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Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more 'performative' tone of greeddit).
Bump this right to the tippy top!! This made Lemmy so much more usable for me!
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I made a community for Lemmy tips, called...well, [email protected]
Subbed!
For the fastest moving frontpage, sort by "New Comments". You can set your frontpage's default sort and list in settings.
And in settings, either just select all, or select "Undetermined" and the languages you can understand. To multi-select in that list, you need to hold "Ctrl" while clicking on them. Hold "Shift" and click on the top, then scroll down to the bottom and click on that, to select all languages. Seriously that UI element need improvements.
Search for the names of all the communities that you're part of on reddit and join the biggest two or three with the same name that you see here. Post to whichever is your favorite or whichever is biggest if you can't tell the difference in order to encourage consolidation.
If you are looking specifically for reddit replacements https://redditmigration.com/ is good
For community discovery in general there's https://browse.feddit.de/
Yep, good advice, with suggested alteration to the end.
Free your mind from the expectation of consolidation into a single community per topic. Decentralization is a feature of Lemmy. Posts on whatever communities you've subscribed will show in your "subscribed" feed regardless, it doesn't matter if it's one community or ten so long as it's the content that interests you. When one community goes down, the other nine will still be there.
I feel like there needs to be a balance. Sometimes two communities about the same topic have genuinely different flavors and make sense to keep separate. But other times it's just a lot easier and more productive to take people from ten little pools having the same conversation to one big one.
If you're using an app to view lemmy, it's worth updating regularly (at the moment anyway). Mine hadn't automatically updated for a while, but it turns out Jerboa (on android) has made a lot of improvements to the app in the past few weeks
Don't put too much effort into picking your home Instance right away. Just pick one and go. As you get more familiar with the place, then start to put some thought into which Instance you really want to be on.
One you pick your real home Instance, just start a brand new account over there and start over. You can use your original account on the whatever Instance as an alt, in case your home server goes down for maint.
Be willing to learn a new social network.