A message to new users

https://lemmy.world/post/6086181

A message to new users - Lemmy.world

Hello World! The last week or so we have seen quite a big ‘boost’ in the amount of new users signing up so we thought it would be a good time to highlight some things that are of interest to new users. CODE OF CONDUCT Lemmy World is not a free speech instance, there are a couple of ground rules that need to be followed. If you’re new, I would advise you to read our Code of Conduct [https://lemmy.world/legal]. NEW USER QUESTIONS If you are new to the fediverse as a whole, it might all be a bit overwhelming. What is Lemmy? What is federation? What even is an instance? For those questions I would suggest you have a look at the getting starting guide [https://lemmy.world/post/37906]. It should cover most of your questions. STILL HAVE QUESTIONS? You can head over to the [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.world/c/support] community. This community should be used for questions regarding Lemmy World and is not the support community for the Lemmy software this site uses. Our Admin @quinten [https://lemmy.world/u/quinten] recently made a post covering the most recurring questions there too. Read about that here [https://lemmy.world/post/4505404]. ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES Lemmy World hosts a few custom User Interfaces which give you a completely different experience both on the desktop as on mobile. - https://a.lemmy.world [https://a.lemmy.world] - Alexandrite is a beautiful and convenient desktop-first alternate web UI for Lemmy. Official site https://alexandrite.app [https://alexandrite.app] - https://photon.lemmy.world [https://photon.lemmy.world] - Photon A sleek client for Lemmy with powerful mod and admin tools. The only alternative client with feature parity to the official client. Official site https://phtn.app [https://phtn.app] - https://m.lemmy.world [https://m.lemmy.world] - Voyager was one of the first alternative UI’s that became available. Optimized for Mobile. Official site https://vger.app [https://vger.app] - https://old.lemmy.world [https://old.lemmy.world] - a familiar desktop experience for lemmy. Official site https://mlmym.org [https://mlmym.org] THIRD PARTY APPS There are a lot of Third Party apps available for Lemmy. From Paid to Open Source, you will find something that suits you easily. For a complete list, have a look at this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/465785 [https://lemmy.world/post/465785]

What is your favorite Alternative UI? Are you using it full-time or still switch back to the default one? We want to know!

I tend to use photon.lemmy.world, but it’d be really cool if I could log in to lemmy.world using tesseract. It’s a fork of Photon - so I imagine it also has feature-parity with the official UI - but it’s “designed for media-rich feeds and content”. It’s what they use at dubvee, and db0 also provides it as an alternative

I don’t use the default one because it gets confused when lemmy decides to bring a gif in from an external site, and then convert it to a mp4 (it’s a pretty hit-and-miss affair in the Gifs Community), though I realise it’s ultimately lemmy itself that’s causing the problem.

GitHub - asimons04/Tesseract: Tesseract: The best Lemmy client no one is using :-P

Tesseract: The best Lemmy client no one is using :-P - GitHub - asimons04/Tesseract: Tesseract: The best Lemmy client no one is using :-P

GitHub

Videos aren’t played inline for reasons I’ll make a sticky about in the photon community.

However, when you open a post page, it’ll play a video if it detects it.