RuudJun 10, 2023

Lemmy.world starting guide

https://lemmy.world/post/37906

Lemmy.world starting guide - Lemmy.world

(I’m creating a starting guide post here. Have patience, it will take some time…) # 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 [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 [https://lemmy.world/post/15786] # 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] [https://lemmy.world/u/ruud] , who is also running https://mastodon.world [https://mastodon.world], https://calckey.world [https://calckey.world] and others. A list of Lemmy servers and their statistics can be found at FediDB [https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy] # Quick start guide ## Searching ## Reading ## Posting ## Commenting ## Moderating # Issues When you find any issue, please report so here: https://lemmy.world/post/15786 [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 [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.

Show threadSpitz
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.
Jun 11, 2023 at 1:32amWeb
Show threadge_generationJun 11, 2023

You can search for communities, and in the list you will get communities on other instances.

Show threadSpitzJun 11, 2023
Yes, I got that. But how do you connect to them?
Show threadNebLemJun 11, 2023
If you open the community on our host (so it will read https://lemmy.world/c/communtityname@somewhereelse on the address bar for the communityname community owned by the somewhereelese instance) there should be a "Join" button on the sidebar.
Show threadCamusJun 11, 2023
https://lemmy.ml/post/1160417