the lemmy system
I've actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.
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I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it's not working. I've used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it's not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?
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I've also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?
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Consider putting the mention at the end as the first line of your post will become the post title. So
On Mastodon will give you a lemmy post that looks like
Title:
Body:
You need to add line breaks to your example here. Otherwise you are giving some very bad advice.
What?
You need to double-enter (for some reason). Right now it looks like this:
One single newline Leads to no line break at all
Double space before the newline
Should yield a line break
Double newline
Leads to paragraph break
Why is it like this 😭
It's in the holy text: the markdown standard.
Ninja edit: the reason is because a single line break should have no formatting effect so that markdown files can be opened and show up better in terminal editors like vim or emacs. It's good to be able to break a line when it gets too long in editors which don't use page formatting to handle line wrapping (ie. like MS Word does). So you need something other than a single newline character to represent a rendered paragraph break.
Oh weird. I thought it'd be fine since I quoted it.
Did it show an error when you tried to confirm your email?
it said incorrect login credentials when trying to log in.
the link in the email takes me nowhere but a blank page.
Try clearing the browser. It may have a cookie that needs refreshed.
I don't know enough about the lemmy server to say whether this is a regular issue. I'd just retry creating a user with the same email.
Bear in mind, the first line becomes the title of post and the rest is in the body, so it's recommended to add the mention later.
I'm not sure about your first question, but for the second: Mastodon and Lemmy are both part of the Fediverse, implementing the ActivePub protocol. But what each offers is not really compatible with the other. Mastodon is microblogging, whereas Lemmy is link/news aggregator.
The semantics of each also don't match: does favorite-ing in Mastodon post equal a Lemmy upvote?So while you can't natively cross-post between the two systems,there's no reason why an app can't integrate the experience of both seamlessly. And in any case, sharing content from one to another is as simple as including the URL.You can natively cross-post though.
TIL. I've struck out the parts of my answer which don't reflect the present reality.
Lemmy is ranked-threaded discussion software.
I'll meet you half way, as the intro text at join-lemmy.com prominently proclaims: "Lemmy: a link aggregator for the Fediverse". I've edited my answer, although I'm concerned what other parts of it will prove to be wrong lol
Bruh