how are yall feeling about the website?
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I’m trying to understand it still. I understand you can visit communities from any other instance, but are communities shared between them? I mean, if there’s an r/NFL in lemmy.world, can lemmy.ml also contain an r/NFL and would those two be two different things?
Yes this would be two different communities on two different servers. Right now everything here is still wild west but overtime you will get something like a “default” NFL community where most people visit and several smaller sub-communites on different servers.
We have a gaming on lemmy.ml and we have a gaming on beehaw.org. The later is already bigger and way more active than the former.
First time here for me, and I’m confused as well.
Say there’s a ‘movies’ community on this server, and one on lemmy.ml, and over time the one on ml becomes the definitive one, do I need to have an account on the ml server as well or is there a way to be able to see multiple communities on different servers in my stream?
Thanks for taking the time to help us newcomers out.You only need one account to access the entire Lemmy network. So you can still access the movies community on lemmy.ml if it does become the definitive one and considering that it’s the “main” instance right now, that shouldn’t be hard either.
I mean, I’m commenting here in lemmy.world from lemmy.ml
Ah, thanks, that makes sense - I went to ml and it said I needed to register in order to comment, and thought if I found communities on 8 different servers I wanted to post to I’d need to register on each of them and switch every time.
I’ll get used to it.Are you using a PC or maybe Android Smartphone?
For PC: At your startpage (should be lemmy.world) in the top left should be “Community’s”. If you click on that you get to the community list. Here you can sort by subscribed/local/all.
Choose “All” to get all possible Communities (subs) from all servers. You can also search for keywords like “gaming”. Just click the subscribe button for the communities you’re interested and you should be good.
Similar with the Android App. At the bottom menu, the second from the left (looks like a list icon) you get to the community overview/search function. Here you just simply have to search a keyword, visit the community and press the subscribe button.
Hope that helps.
Is there an easier way to find communities on other instances? I wish I could browse another instance as if it were “local” to organically find more communities.
Same. This is the biggest downside by far for me.
This is my first visit so I’m still trying to figure things out. I’m on the mobile website right now because I haven’t been able to figure out how to log in on the Jerboa app. Can anyone tell me what “instance” means on Jerboa when you’re logging in? I tried a couple different ones from the dropdown menu but they all said " incorrect login."
Instance is basically a server. All of the servers talk to each other, so you can post and comment on any one of them. But your physical account resides on only one server. Currently, you can’t migrate your account from one server to another, but it’s planned as a feature in future releases of Lemmy.
Your instance (server) is lemmy.world, so you need to type that in the instance field. Thus, your username on Lemmy (and in the fediverse) is Violet@lemmy.world.
Thanks for this explanation. Where are “subreddits” and how do I find them? Are they on different instances?
“subreddits” are communities. You can find them with the search field from your instance, or using the community browser.
Where’s the home page? I subscribe but I always see Lenny.world. Please help
lemmy.world is your home instance, but you should have a way to select Subscribed/Local/All. Looks like this for me (in German):
That will show posts from all the instances lemmy.world federates with. The “main” instance is lemmy.ml.
Can anyone run a server? If our account is pinned to one server and that server shuts down, I assume we lose all our account info/history?
Yes, anyone can run an instance.
If your accounts home server/instance shuts down, the account is lost. But your posts and comments should still be on other server. If I understand federation correctly, each instance keeps copies of the posts and comments from instances it federates with.
I’m still mainly using Reddit atm as there is just so much more content to see and a few small Subreddits that I haven’t found here. I also have not seen any porn here yet.
The blackout will hopefully bring more people (like me) here, as for those 2 days, I’ll DNS block Reddit in my network to not accidentally use it during that time. Hoping to get more used to this here during that time.
Pretty good, can someone explain how federation works with Lemmy? Are communities linked?
I’m commenting here from another instance (feddit.de) where I’m logged in and this community is available at https://feddit.de/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
Similarly, you can just access communities from other instances here, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
but like if there are two Gaming communities on different instances, do they merge? or are they separate?
They are separate. Think of community names like email addresses: john.smith@here.edu is different from john.smith@there.com
Similarly, gaming@lemmy.ml is different from gaming@beehaw.org
I’m finding it hard to get rid of the “Open Reddit”'s muscle memory
A scripblocker/adblocker might help you there.
Conceptually I think this is really cool. General question - I know you can interact with different instances, and presumably there are communities that are highly active that are not on my home instance. How can I search for those communities?
use this to search. then copy the found URL into your instance search. It might take second.
