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Ruud Jun 10, 2023

Lemmy.world starting guide

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.

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grus Jun 10, 2023

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?

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Depressing that such a question gets downvoted. People, this is a valid concern.

There are at least two different pradigms at work here, which seem to resemble to an extent the schism in the global civilisation which currently is becoming more clearly visible. In a nutshell, there are totalitarian collectivists and (how to best call them ...) perhaps "libertarian individualists". Both are extreme, and there are other, more advanced, philosophies interwoven.

This mirror of societal schism goes to the core concepts of this network: there are the ones saying that servers ought to be themed, and those will naturally have more-or-less totalitarian admins directing what can go on in their niche realm. Then there are those who see server instances as a mere method of decentralisation and failure resilience, and therefore we have a number of "general purpose" instances as well. -- But is it not remarkable that core functionality like user and community migration is not implemented (it's actually missing from the technical conception)? ATM, instances owh their users and communities. I'm quite certain that this will get fixed, because it's only a matter of time until whole domains get taken down at loss of accounts and content.

I'm struggling with a bit of forced cognitive dissonance, because on one side, the main developers are displaying genocidal despotes and institutional murderers as their idols, but on the other hand they are doing tremendous work toward free platforms that can enable the interwebs to be taken back from corporations into public hands. I think we should be aware and kindly ask for explanations.