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.
Is there a way to turn off auto-refresh on the homepage's posts? Sometimes its cool to drink from the firehose, but other times you're trying to read titles of posts and they refresh and scroll off faster than you can keep up with. Would be great to have a auto/manual toggle for refreshing.
I'm trying to upvote stuff and it keeps automagically unclicking it when I click. Do I need to do something different, like burn incense and melt an ancient AOL disk or something?
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 :)
https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY
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:
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
Thank you! A user guide is sorely needed, I'm still overwhelmed by all this new stuff lol, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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.
Is there some way to stop Lemmy from refreshing under my nose. I'm trying to click a link, or read one and it just scrolls away.
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?
Thank you for this. It feels a little like collective moving day 😆
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.
On Reddit subreddits are self moderated. Are communities on Lemmy self moderated or does all moderation happen at the instance level?
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
it’s ok so far, but unlike Apollo where you can get it to show the post title only it seems like it wants to expand everything. so there’s a lot more scrolling involved atm
you can collapse comments in thread, but not collapse the OP if it’s a huge long one like this
Remember that Mlem is only a very early pre-release; it will get better!
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
How can i help donate and support lemmy.wold and the greater Lemmy ecosystem?
Why the upvotes and downvotes are acting like crazy? I'm back after a few hours and I'm noticing that in all posts. Also, I'm noticing too that I can't upvote anything.
The FediDB site does not list lemmy.worlds hosting location, what country is the site hosted in?
ETA: I'm inclined to think the Netherlands based off of some quick googling, but confirmation would be nice.
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.
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
https://browse.feddit.de
How often is this updated? I've joined a few in the past 24 hours that aren't listed on this aggregator.
See here for a discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/603421
Whelp, this begs another question... how do you link to a post in another instance such that anyone can follow without getting logged out of their current account/instance?
I can't figure it out 😅 Maybe it's not possible yet?
Haha, me neither... I'm gonna post it to AskLemmy
by the way, as a workaround, you can search the post in your own instance to get a local link like https://lemmy.world/post/27299
BUT this isn't instance-agnostic so it would again cause problems for someone who's not on lemmy.world either
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.
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!
Thanks for the explanation. So far I have only explored a a few communities. I still have to get used to this platform. Is it possible to see which posts I have upvoted?
Goodbye Reddit and welcome Lemmy
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!
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.
Excellent post! Hello to all the reddit refuges... including myself lol
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.
On jerboa I found out that you can reply to stuff in your inbox without revisiting that thread. You have to click it so isn't collapsed, then click and hold where the up votes are and it will expand further to show all the options like upvote, comment, etc. Hope that helps someone, anyone.
RIF transplant. Happy to be here. Thank you for the tutorial looking forward to start playing catchup
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!
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]
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
What’s the difference between this and calckey
Great post, but how do i hide this after reading through it? It really sucks that this keeps popping up at the top of my all feed and i have to scroll past it before anything else shows.
So as I understand it, communities are the equivalent of subreddits, is it possible to create a private community? One accessible only by members? Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis are part of a private sub.
Hi, thanks for the post. This bit confuses me: "Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server."
How does a user interact with a server for the first time, for lemmy.world to start indexing it?
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?
Do you have a Patreon setup for deferring some of the costs? I think there's a tidal wave of users in your future.
Is there a way to pause the feed when browsing all/new?
It's adding new posts faster than I can even scroll, I see something I want to look at and POOF, it's gone to who knows where.
am i supposed to be able to post comments? i verified my email and all
It appears you were successful.
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.
Saved this for later. I feel like this will be really useful to sober me
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.
Relatedly, I had a user tell me that c/tennis is ‘the only community not showing up on search’ from a particular instance; any idea why that might be? I created the community on mobile, if that makes a difference. Thanks for putting this guide together!
No, that should just show up. Maybe they have to wait a bit.
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!
Thanks this helps a lot. Coming over since they massacred by boy rif
Is there any concern about posts going viral and spiking bandwidth cost? Kind of a 'victim of my own success' kinda thing. Also, I could imagine a bad actor DDoS-ing an instance just to drive up network costs.
It needs to be emphasized that content needs to be discovered by the other instance and only new content will be synced since the discovery. I only found that out today and it's pretty confusing.
Does lemmy.world have any guidelines on what communities can and cannot be created? Is NSFW allowed? Are there any rules for what communities should NOT be created here?
@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.
Hello, world!
Is there a way to hide posts / mark as read / remove from feed?
Fuck reddit, long live Lemmy!
This is great, thank you! I plan to send it to a friend - it's much better than any explanation that I could come up with.
Why did 3 people downvote this?!
I know this behavior is inevitable and I shouldn’t focus on that minority, but this is objectively a good post for the community.
I'm a dev interested in getting involved. I've followed on GitHub and I'm about to start diving into the various repos. Where is development being coordinated?
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!
What is the philosophy behind downvotes? Downvote non-productive/bad faith comments or downvote things you do not like?
Should add a section about client apps. I’m using the web for now, but I can’t imagine Lemmy getting incorporated into my daily routine like Reddit is without a native app.
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).
Could you sticky a donation link on the top of this community? Or put it in the community-info section?
In my haste to sign up I jumped into Lemmy.ca, as I followed a favorite subreddit there. Now I'm feeling like I would prefer a more general instance. Can I switch from lemmy.ca to Lemmy.world? Outside of the local view does it even matter?
Thank you for this, and I'll be checking back as it's populated with more info. I know nothing about coding, but if I can help with testing things or whatever, do let 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.
This is likely a stupid question, but why can I instantly subscribe to some sublemmys? (I have no idea what the equivalent of subreddits are called in Lemmy) but on others my sub request remains pending indefinitely? Thanks.
Thanks for the sticky. This all feels very wild west!
So lemmy uses ActivityPub, right? But can it connect with mastodon or gnu social that also use it?
So how do you start a new community?
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!
Goodbye reddit and hello Lemmy.world Just gonna wait for an app for both iOS and Android.
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
I've been wondering about that too. Do we all share the same community, or is each instance only seeing the posts/comments in a community from that instance?
as long as the instances are federated, you can interact with communities on other instances. There's alittle extra effort needed to subscribe to a community on another instance, but it's not difficult.
it does mean that you are subject to the uptime of whatever server the community is on. So things like Lemmy.ml that are having difficulties right now affect more than just the users on that instance.
Good to know, thanks for the explanation, much appreciated!
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.
Are you familiar with what's going on over at Reddit right now?
Yes, but in that case the mobile website is not fine; it is awful. I just used the desktop site on mobile, though, so I'm not actually familiar with what people want to get out of an app.
With Reddit, the apps provided a different interface to the mobile site; it’s not just “Reddit mobile but in an app”. Things like native integration of list displays with your phone app; faster loading, swipe gestures (for things like upvote/downvote or create reply, etc)
Ya know...for whenever your standing in line or waiting for a flight, a phone app makes things...smoother (if the app is good)
But how is that better than the website and not just different? I'm using the mobile site now and it seems okay, if confusing.
Yet another Reddit refugee here! Thanks for the very informative post! I'm liking what I see so far 👍
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.
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.
How does lemmy mark a post as read? I want to scroll past posts and have them automatically marked read, and then not show them to me again. Every time i open lemmy I'm seeing the same posts I've seen many times. Yes, even when I am not sorting on 'active'
Hi and thank you for putting this together!
When I'm searching for Lemmy posts from the browser, if I'm taken to a post on a different server, do I need to register/login on that server to be able to comment?
Or can I open that post on Jerboa, logged in from my account, to comment?
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.
Is there a way to slow down the firehose that is my feed? At times my feed will just start scrolling with new posts at the top without giving me a chance to click on anything. I've tried different filters, but nothing allows me to slow it down. Maybe I'm just missing something.
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!
I know the techies behind the scenes are already busy and will be more so in the coming months, but I'd love to have sound notifications for jerboa.
Is this server going to keep its federation blocklist empty? I am likely going to move here from another instance because they have defederated a few servers now
So if there's a community in another Lemmy website how do we get that community to this website (instead of duplicating the community)?
___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.
goodbye reddit, hello lemmy!
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?
Anything similar to Reddit Frontpage?
I would like to see the top posts on any community on any server so I can easily find active and interesting communities in the fediverse.
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!
What client would you recommend for android? As of now I'm trying jerbora
Thanks for the guide. Here's to a new future.
Can we get this pinned to the top? I think K everyone needs to see this or some version of this
Is there a place to discuss moderating? I'm new to being a mod and I was wondering if mods should be able to edit post titles/body to follow community guidelines?
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.
this is great, thanks for this - going to have a good read through over the blackout for the next few days
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? 😉
Would love to bail on Reddit if possible
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!
I do wish the search function was easier. I’m into a lot of tech stuff and just searching for an Apple community is a little rough. Understanding will come with time I guess.
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.
Do you need to do anything else to go into effect? I set to All and sort type hot which is saved in settings but when going to home it reverts back to local and active
I think this is a UI bug. If you have in your settings "All", you should be seeing "All" in the homepage, even though "All" is not selected. But if you pay attention to the posts, you will notice that some are not from your local instance, hence All is selected, it is just not marked as such in the UI.
I think it's a bug with 'all'. It happens to me too, but it works if I choose 'subscribed'.
Thank you! Guessing it would be a big help for the influx of Redditors if "Subscribed" or "All" was the default.
How do I see saved posts?
Is there a file size limit for banners?
Very new user here (but fairly old manufacturing date), thank you for your guide, it helps a lot as I try to wrap my head around the "federated platform" stuff.
For mobile client apps, for Android, the one I found is Jerboa, maybe its a good thing to include it in your list.
Is it common to see fragmentation across different Lemmys? Like I just searched for NFL on ALL and got two responses. One from this world lemmy and another one on ml. Do I just sub to both and hope it works itself out?
ty for this
Quick question: is there anything similar to Reddit karma built into Lemmy?
How do we add the Instance to lemmur? Everything I try it just says instance not found.
Edit: nevermind, I found jeroba
Great write up, I appreciate this as I get stuck into Lemmy.
Does the 'local' tab just refer to posts from your home instance, eg; .world?
If it’s federated, how does or can it integrate with Mastodon? Did I make a mistake by creating a separate login?
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]
Is it possible to stop the new posts auto-scrolling the screen up? I can't read a headline without 20 new posts teleporting it away!
Can we unsticky this post personally? I have to scroll through the guide each time I get on lemmy. And it’s quite long.
Is Lemmy.world in the US?
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 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?
Is there a hidden character limit? Was trying to copy and paste something and it never posted, just span forever. But a small post loaded instantly.
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.
What does pending subscribe mean?
It's probably a visual bug, I have that too, check the list of your subscriptions, you'll find that community is in the list and you see it in your feed, regardless of the pending button.
Normally un-subscribing and re-subscribing fixes it, IME.
I'll try that next time, thanks!
This is excellent, very helpful! I added a link to it in https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/#background
How can I not see this post every time I open lemmy?
Great initiative!
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.
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.
We've just published a polish translation of this, with some minor changes; https://szmer.info/post/356383
I'm trying to use the app to browse when I'm not at a computer. I've seen mentions of "Jerboa" but it won't accept my login credentials. I've tried all three instances, no dice. Any suggestions? I use Android phone the most, but open to apps for iOS.
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.
I discovered that if I deselect Undetermined as a language for my community, then I can't post using Jerboa ("error: language not allowed"). Apparently that is the language Jerboa uses by default, probably some other apps too.
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.
Frankly I’ve been looking for a while now and I can’t figure out how to subscribe to a community?
Can the all communities list be sorted?
Hope that someone creates a Lemmy view much like old.reddit - way too spread out for me right now. Please, someone build this. :)
Is Lemmy.world based on the US?
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.
Any interest in a comm for either MCU or Doctor Who?
Another ex redditor here!
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 :)
https://imgur.com/a/fiLOmI7
Done
Thanks for the post! This was a great read for a new user like me.
Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to test whether I could post a comment here.
And a reply?
that info graphic was great! thanks for posting this
Thank you! You are a legend for setting this up
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.
So, how do you make this more browsable on desktop?
How do i unblock someone? It was an accident
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
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!
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!
What is the difference between Lemmy ML and WORLD?
@ruud Can a Mastodon user vote on a Lemmy post?
Does anyone know where I can find the main differences between Lemmy.world and kbin.social? That’s probably a stupid question….just trying to understand
Thanks for this. Will take some getting used to, but I like this decentralized concept much better than what Reddit is.
Bravo. Reddit had no idea how much it sucked until 3hrs ago.
We where brainwashed and didn't know anything else but reddit. glad I found lemmy
same, this is much better
Yea, It's not like the CEO or the Server Admin on this instance is going in and changing comments and admitting it when pressured :P u/spez isn't here so i'm glad. unless he is and they are sending in spies to see the competition
wouldn't be surprised if he or other reddit admins are taking note of lemmy but I doubt they could do anything about the userbase leaving
Yep. I've checked reddit yesterday and its business as usual but I'm not subscribed to all the subs that are blacked out so I really don't know how this is affecting reddit. we can only hope that they will go down in flames :P
What's upp I have landed. Thanks for the post!
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…
What does create remote post or comment mean? Does this mean we can post onreddit from here or something?
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.
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?
thank you very much! this was very helpful for me.
Thanks for the guide.
Gunners
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
Thank you so much @[email protected]! This is so helpful! :D
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.
i don’t see it described here. i get the difference between “subscribed” and “all” but what the hell is ”local”?
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.
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
Thank you!
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.
Anyone else having issues trying to create a community? I input everything and get the loading symbol but it never goes past that, no matter how long I leave it.
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?
If you delete your account (or get banned) on one instance (such as .ml), does it affect the other instance, such as .world?
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!
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.I am unable to create a community. The thing just keeps spinning and doesn't do anything. Trying to get things sorted out here to get my users to transfer from reddit ultimately.
Would it be an idea to add the alternative interfaces in this post?
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 advance
Hi, thanks for the post. I migrated here immediately after Boost started not working well any more.
Just made a community, how do I make it searchable for people in other instances aside from lemmy.world?
Thank you for this helpful post!
Helpfull!
Not sure if this was raised already, but how come og:images don't show up on article posts in lemmy.world?
Is creating new communities currently broken (overwhelmed server?) or is it just me?
Thanks for this!
Hi, is it possible to create a community that is visible only to myself?
Thanks
I can't seem to find a way to search through comments, so sorry if this has already been asked in this thread: How do you add a profile picture? Going to my profile doesn't seem to help much.
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.
Polskie tłumaczenie, z drobnymi zmianami: https://szmer.info/post/356383
The search using !community@instance format never works for me. I always have to enter just the community name and look through the list to see if it’s there.
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.
How do I add someone as a moderator to a community?
please add turkish language
Thank you so much for this! When searching for communities, do you need to include the @instance bit, or can you simply search !topic if you don't know where it might be hosted?
I've seen repeated accusations that lemmy is tankie/red-fash, especially when it comes to those that control it - mods/admins/w/e. How true is 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.
Can one send a PRivate message to another user?
What image file types can be used for posting? I got a weird error when trying to upload a JPEG onto NFLMemes
Muito bom pra eu aprender..
New users: this instance is too large, please join a smaller instance.
Thank you for this guide! Helped me alot!
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.
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!
So if an instance 'defederates' another instance, it effectively means all content from them is blocked while using the instance which defederated them?