immadeofgoldWelcome reddit refugees!
I’m loving Beehaw! And it’s super cool that we can all interact across servers and communities.
I think this has a lot of potential, I mean I’m already using it a ton. The only thing missing imo is more niche communities, but those will come along as the user base grows.
_finger_Go make them! :)
I know lol it just seems really daunting. And idk if the userbase is even large enough to support what I'd personally want. It'd probably be just me.
But regardless, I'd love a community like the NatureIsLit subreddit, or even AIDKE (animals I didn't know existed).
jayI would gladly join AIDKE
I just made [email protected] to combine a couple animal subs. AIDKE is always low key awwducational in my mind
I just made [email protected]!
I just made [email protected]! I have no idea what I'm doing!
TheJawaConfusing as shit initially, but it starts to make sense
same same, but different.
I remember when reddit felt this way. I was there Gandalf, three thousand years ago.
Really hope this thing takes off.
lynnySpread it to as many people as possible.
I was thinking about this, a single image tutorial would probably go far as a post on reddit right now. Esp explaining how there are both an iOS and Android app.
I'm trying to understand it still. I understand you can visit communities from any other instance, but are communities shared between them? I mean, if there's an r/NFL in lemmy.world, can lemmy.ml also contain an r/NFL and would those two be two different things?
netburnrThis is also the confusing part to me. If I want to see content for NFL, are we all fractured among hundreds of servers and there is no way to see all new posts on all of the verse at once?
Yeah that's right. In practice though, over time you'd expect most people to eventually congregate on 1-2 big communities where there is the most quality content and moderation.
The upside is that no single server or moderator(s) own any community. Like on Reddit there can only be one r/NFL so if the mods decide to do something unpopular with the subreddit then everyone is just stuck with that.
Here someone can just create a new NFL community on a different server or start their own server with their own mod policies.
Really it's not too different from how things were with reddit though. Often subreddits would fracture and people create a new subreddits dedicated to the same topic. There are a lot of very similar subreddits that for the same topic that co-exist
Think about how r/FreeFolk split from r/GameOfThrones because people got pissed at the moderators and then later it ended up becoming more popular than the initial subreddit
Lemmy is really sick. Honestly, I was pretty heartbroken yesterday about Apollo after 12 years on Reddit. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air in what’s felt like a cave full of shit this week.
Drew Got No ClueFirst of all the r/ doesn’t apply here (okay, I’m being pedantic, sorry), but if I understood correctly what you’re asking, you can see any community from all instances. Each instance can also create a community of the same name (so in that case they wouldn’t be shared) but you can access !community@instance everywhere and it’s the same for all
redimkCan regular pepole create these communities or is it locked to admins or specific people?
I just came from the Reddit exodus so I am still understanding how this works
Depends on the policy of the instance where you are creating the account, for example, beehaw doesn't allow for creation of new communities but lemmy.ml does
so on beehaw, how would I go about creating one? Requesting somewhere?
RhabukoYes this would be two different communities on two different servers. Right now everything here is still wild west but overtime you will get something like a "default" NFL community where most people visit and several smaller sub-communites on different servers.
We have a gaming on lemmy.ml and we have a gaming on beehaw.org. The later is already bigger and way more active than the former.
First time here for me, and I’m confused as well.
Say there’s a ‘movies’ community on this server, and one on lemmy.ml, and over time the one on ml becomes the definitive one, do I need to have an account on the ml server as well or is there a way to be able to see multiple communities on different servers in my stream?
Thanks for taking the time to help us newcomers out.
Say there’s a ‘movies’ community on this server, and one on lemmy.ml, and over time the one on ml becomes the definitive one, do I need to have an account on the ml server as well or is there a way to be able to see multiple communities on different servers in my stream?
Thanks for taking the time to help us newcomers out.
RoverseerYou only need one account to access the entire Lemmy network. So you can still access the movies community on lemmy.ml if it does become the definitive one and considering that it's the "main" instance right now, that shouldn't be hard either.
I mean, I'm commenting here in lemmy.world from lemmy.ml
Ah, thanks, that makes sense - I went to ml and it said I needed to register in order to comment, and thought if I found communities on 8 different servers I wanted to post to I’d need to register on each of them and switch every time.
I’ll get used to it.
I’ll get used to it.
Are you using a PC or maybe Android Smartphone?
For PC: At your startpage (should be lemmy.world) in the top left should be "Community's". If you click on that you get to the community list. Here you can sort by subscribed/local/all.
Choose "All" to get all possible Communities (subs) from all servers. You can also search for keywords like "gaming". Just click the subscribe button for the communities you're interested and you should be good.
Similar with the Android App. At the bottom menu, the second from the left (looks like a list icon) you get to the community overview/search function. Here you just simply have to search a keyword, visit the community and press the subscribe button.
Hope that helps.
Thanks. - on IPhone using Firefox. Still just poking around
check out Mlem! You can get via apples Test Flight app for Beta apps. App is pretty intuitive and would you believe has a better sorting function than the official reddit app? Reminds me of Apollo in this way.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
Have a look at this post, which will help you find some communities to join: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827
In short...
- Your account (and every account) has a home instance. Both you and I have our accounts on
lemmy.world. - And every
community(aka subreddit) also has a home instance. The home instance for this community happens to be also belemmy.world, same as our accounts. - But through federation, the posts from each community gets copied from the communities home server onto each subscribed user's home server. So you can subscribe to any community on any server that
lemmy.worldfederates with.
So while it's possible for multiple instances to have an nfl community, it's not necessary since you can sub to the NFL community on another instance and that's totally normal and expected. Think of it as the subreddits name includes its instance name, so [email protected] is just a different subreddit than [email protected], just like on Reddit you could have competing subs named /r/nfl and /r/nflfootball. And just like reddit, when things start to calm down, I think you will see that in cases where a bunch of dupe subs exist... one or two with active mods start to dominate on user count and those end up being the most interesting. It will be a bit wild west for a while though. Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit, though, when I find dupes of a topic I care about, my strategy had been to subscribe to them all and I'll cancel the ones that flopped a few months from now when it's clear what is active and what's dead.
How would I see lemmy.ml's main page?
Like I have a local feed here. Is there a way to see another instance's feed?
Figured it out mostly. Seems like some instances have a "main" community you can navigate to. Others just have their name, like this instance's lemmy.world's local feed viewed from another instance world be:
https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]
Same for looking at lemmy.ml's local feed from our instance:
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Or, to use shit again, here's what their main page feed looks like as viewed from our instance:
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
I think im trying trying to wrap my head around it. But it looks promising! Is there a name for individuals on lemmy? Like is there a 'Redditor' for Lemmy?
Excited to be here :)
If it's not
lemming I'm leaving. You're a lemming, I'm a lemming. If all the other lemmings jumped off a bridge would you? Yes, I would.
imaqtpieIt's definitely lemming.
better than "lemmitor"
Lemmiting
I’ve been here for a few days and love it! I have a community too, called allaboutfantasymedia which I hope to get off the ground soon.
GormadtAll about fantasy media?
Sounds interesting, I'll bite
Edit: Could you share a link?
Uh yeah. Let me see how.
Grassgrowzwhat is that community actually about? a short description would help drive people to it!
I did one. Or at least, it says I did.
oh sorry, i meant in the comment you posted here! you got me curious but without a description and link its difficult for me as a new user to add it^^
Oh. I see. I posted a link in the original thread. I just couldn’t find your comment after scowering for the link. Lol.
Oh. I posted a link in the original comment thread cuz your comment disappeared from my inbox when I found the link.
chrundleHow do instances decide to defederate other instances popping up in the future? E.g. an NSFW instance is created but I don't want to see any of it when I browse "All".
TiffIn your account settings, there is a tickbox that says show NSFW content. Make sure you un-tick that and you should be good to go!
I love the fesiverse.
The apps are still a bit buggy and lack in terms of customization.
(Maybe some reddit apps can be adapted to work with lemmy, jerbora just doesn't compare to sync)
Since reddit also blocks api access to nsfw subreddits I kind of hope that we'll get a nsfw lemmy instance someday.
I'm on Jerbora right now for the first time ever, and you're right that it's definitely a bit buggy and not feature-complete. Like I want threads to have a smaller font because they're too large by default, but the front page to stay the same font. Have you found any other apps worth checking out or is Jerbora pretty solid relatively in your experience?
How on earth do you log on on Jerboa? I can't figure it out. The profile button on the bottom right just brings up 'log in first'. Very weird.
linearchaosUpper left hamburger menu there's a drop down and then what's the drop down is expanded you can plus add account. Took me a couple of minutes to find that one myself.
Thanks!
Glad to see an alternative is gaining traction! The inversed colours for up and downvotes will take some getting used to!
To double-check that I understand Lemmy correctly: the equivalent to a subreddit is a server, right? So within lemmy.world there aren’t necessarily subforums/topics/subreddits.
Not really, the equivalent is communities. Which can be on any server they want. So for example there's [email protected] and [email protected]. the hope is eventually people gravitate towards one and others are discouraged from being made (so as to not split the community) unless there's some drama or need to have two.
Is there a list of big communities?
Check out https://browse.feddit.de/
paciphaeWhy is the header image a red car parked beside a rock? Are we supposed to ignore the car, and focus on the distant, tree covered mountains?
So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
AstrealixInteresting username you've got there...
“His 'joke' is the least of our issues
chemical_cutthroatLet's not put them in charge of anything...