Hi everyone. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and is not 100% sure how this works. Is it nearly 1:1 to reddit? What kinda changes am I expecting?
Imagine Reddit as one large city. It contains several neighborhoods that are subreddits. You can move freely between these neighborhoods, but they’re all ultimately under the control of the mayor.
Lemmy is meant to look and feel similar, but we have several cities with several different mayors. Don’t worry - the mayors have an agreement so that you can visit neighborhoods from all cities freely. But if one city burns down… The others remain up. And if one mayor becomes crazy, the other cities can ignore them.
Apart from that, your experience should be similar. Find communities you like, follow them, post, comment. Just keep in mind it’s early days so the apps and website still have a few bugs here and there, they’ll improve with time.
That is a really great explanation — AND it gave me Sim City 2000 vibes to boot 😂
How does banning an account work? Can a person be banned from 1 “city” and still access the others?
Yes.
Does this have a polarizing effect over time? Is there a “rational” part of Lemmy and an “irrational” part that mutually block each other’s cities? (Superman and Bizarro Superman if you prefer that analogy)
Probably will be some that act like children. And you know what? That’s fine. You dont have to engage with everyone.
When a city (instance) gets too populated with users. Can the mayor stop people from coming to our city and redirecting them to cities that still have capacity?
I dont want the city to get so big the mayor can’t handle it.
Not only they can - this already happened. Lemmy.ml locked down new account registrations as they couldn’t keep up with the demand, which accelerated the growth of Lemmy.world.
Hi am one of the ppl that arrived from reddit yesterday. here’s what i found (note used to be an old.reddit.com + RES desktop user)
-videos have to be opened in a separate tab, the tumbnail bugs out for me.
-middle click is your friend
-if using “sort: all” dont bother scrolling the page will scroll automatically, i think we are waiting for this to get fixed as it makes it hard to browse with all the new posts coming in. I’ve just been pushing posts to new tabs as i see them.
-when in “sort: all” you can see posts from other domains such as lemm.ee or lemmy.world, if you want to subscribe to a community (subreddit localised to that domain) press the green link to be brought to the community while staying in your domain.
-sometimes you might find yourself in a separate domain than the one you have an account on and can’t subscribe. There’s a way to access from your domain, here’s how: ex. from the gaming subreddit at lemmy.world and you want to access it from lemm.ee you would change the url like so: lemmy.world/c/gaming would become lemm.ee/c/gaming@lemmy.world . Now i dont know how you would do this when in a post.
-ive been using a tampermonkey script to make it look closer to RES reddit found here: https://lemm.ee/c/plugins@sh.itjust.works
middle click is your friend
what does it do?
Opens in new tab for links
As the other person said, and I’m sure you’ve tested by now, it’s a super simple way to open new tabs. I love that they open in the background. I use it like a “open these tabs to save for later” type thing.
My sweet summer child your internet game is about to level up.
Wait until you try ctrl+shift+t
I think the biggest thing I was unaware of is how to login. I need to login into my instance each time, I can’t login into any lemmy city. I forgot to my personal instance and tried to log into lemme.wrld. which left it spinning. I see this as being a big issue for laypeople like me.
A decent guide here https://lemmy.world/post/37906?scrollToComments=true
I am still trying to figure things out too. For some reason lemm.ee posts don’t come up on my searches form other interlace accounts.
