Hello everyone,
So, I learned about Lemmy through one of the subreddits I’m in participating in the blackout. I don’t really ‘get’ how to Lemmy yet but I like it here.
Is there any material for learning how do use Lemmy effectively? There’s a few things I’m not sure 'bout.
I’ve found some… instances(?), think that’s the right term, and would like to join. Do I have to re-create my account/create a new account for each or is there a way to connect my existing account to the new instance?
Is there a way to search for instances of a specific purpose rather than browse a listing of some number of instances?
If i understand correctly-You can subscribe to communities on other instances and that pulls them into your subscriber feed and the “all” feed of anyone else on your instance. but you need to join one to get the full “local” experience of another one. I joined one general instance to curate a subscibe list, and another where I want just that local experience plus I can’t subscribe because admins of my instance block the other.
Alight, thank you… but how?
This isn’t strait-forward to me, it seems like whenever I’m in a tab on a different instance to be able to see a community I’m interested in I’m not logged into my account and can’t see the communities from tabs that are.
The best way I’ve found- copy the url of the community you want to join, then go to your home instance, click the 3 bars menu top right, click the spyglass icon search, paste into the search text bar, search, it should provide a link to that community, click on that, then expand the “sidebar” button and click subscribe
Thanks, managed to grab the communities I really wanted… and a few more I found in the process!
I’m new here also but I’ll try my best to answer some of your questions. The most confusing thing about Lemmy to me is the difference between instances and communities. Communities are basically like subreddits and are each housed in an instance. Instances (ex: Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, etc.) Can house one or many communities. If communities are subreddits, instances are reddit.com, the difference with Lemmy is there are many instances that are linked together.
Your Lemmy account can be on any instance and will work on all other instances
As for your last question, I’m going to assume you mean searching communities, not instances, I’m still struggling with that myself, I’ve been browsing all and occasionally clicking on active user accounts to see where else they post. I’m sure there’s a better way but that’s what I’ve been doing.
There’s a few help threads on the main Lemmy subs like askLemmy. Lemmygrad has some really good ones too, I’m sure you can find a good one if you look around. Wish you luck in this transition and remember to make a couple posts once you figure out how everything works, the more content the better!
Thanks! So my acc should just work, input my name & password to a new instance and it’ll go through like it does on dormi.zone? What about instances that have a registration like Lemmygrad?
Yeah, meant communities in place of instances in the last question. One I’m really wanting to find is an equivalent to r/D&DGreentext. I do writeups for my table and use to put them there… however last I checked Greentext is continuing the protest and it’d be nice to just not be on Reddit.
Really wish there were guides for some of these things. Like step-by-step how to do X and common troubleshooting methods. For the most part I don’t know how to do things with Lemmy.
Lemmy definitely has the steepest learning curve of any social media I’ve ever used. I think you should just be able to log into dormi.zone and you should be able to post or comment anywhere. I registered my account on lemmygrad so I’m not sure if you need to get approved to comment but I don’t think that’s the case.
Once you get the hang of things you could always create and mod a DnDGreentext community here, or atleast in the short term post your writeups to dndmemes@sh.itjust.works, if they’re not meant to be funny you could probably put them on the main dnd community.
When I registered the top post I had was a guide made and pinned by the mods of lemmygrad, which was super helpful, hopefully the other instance mods follow suite. Good luck and remember to let me know if you end up creating that community, I would definitely join!
Thanks. Still having a pretty bad time of it. I can at-least see Lemmygrad stuff without having to log in so I’ll give that a look and see if it makes any of this less frustrating.
Edit: Nope, not really. My best guess for why atm would be Lemmygrad & Dormi.zone not being federated but I know absolutely fuck-all about how Federation works.
Being federated is basically your instance agreeing to show posts and users of another instance. I would be really surprised if dormi.zone was defederated since it seems like a pretty normal instance, lemmygrad would make more sense but it’s so popular I don’t think many instances have defederated them either. It’s probably just a bug, Lemmy has plenty and I’ve only ever used it on the Jerboa android app, never in browser. Stick with it, maybe some improvements will be made.
Thanks. I think I will be sticking around and poking at it some more it seems like it is just glitchy behavior going on. I can see some communities from Lemmygrad through browsing under all but not the one’s I want.
