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 threadJust_A_HumanJun 12, 2023
Is there any phone app for Lemmy? Or would it be different websites for different Lemmy worlds?
Show threadNatejka7273Jun 12, 2023
Yes, it's called Jerboa. Using it now. Shockingly decent for being in alpha.
Show threadJust_A_Human

Thanks! yea its looking surprisingly great...now to figure out how the fediverse organizes its communities... Is each instance a different version / server? with each instance having its own communities (subreddits) or each instance is the community grouping?

On a side note, its kind of fun and exhilarating how probably millions of people are trying to figure out this system at the same time

Jun 12, 2023 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadLauchsJun 12, 2023
I've been wondering about that too. Do we all share the same community, or is each instance only seeing the posts/comments in a community from that instance?
Show threadEvilEwokJun 12, 2023

as long as the instances are federated, you can interact with communities on other instances. There's alittle extra effort needed to subscribe to a community on another instance, but it's not difficult.

it does mean that you are subject to the uptime of whatever server the community is on. So things like Lemmy.ml that are having difficulties right now affect more than just the users on that instance.

Show threadLauchsJun 12, 2023
Good to know, thanks for the explanation, much appreciated!