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 threadNocturnalNebulaJun 20, 2023
Does anyone know where I can find the main differences between Lemmy.world and kbin.social? That’s probably a stupid question….just trying to understand
Show threadhamid
Both look similar because they do the same thing and can interact with each other because they use ActivityPub protocol, but the under-the-hood is different. kbin is written in php and lemmy is written in rust. That only matters to the developers and website hosts.
Jun 20, 2023 at 2:40amWeb
Show threadNocturnalNebulaJun 20, 2023
Cool, thanks! Do you have a preference yet?
Show threadhamidJun 20, 2023
Not really to be honest, I have been using 3 or 4 instances and they all have pieces of the whole "fediverse" I can see how it might not be user friendly but idc, works for me.