Lemmy.world starting guide
Lemmy.world starting guide
(I'm creating a starting guide post here. Have patience, it will take some time...)
Disclaimer: I am new to Lemmy like most of you. Still finding my way. If you see something that isn't right, let me know. Also additions, please comment!
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
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
Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server.
A great image describing this, made by @ulu_mulu@lemmy.world : https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY
About Lemmy.world
Lemmy.world is one of the many servers hosting the Lemmy software. It was started on June 1st, 2023 by @ruud@lemmy.world , who is also running https://mastodon.world, https://calckey.world and others.
A list of Lemmy servers and their statistics can be found at FediDB
Quick start guide
Account
You can use your account you created to log in to the server on which you created it. Not on other servers. Content is federated to other servers, users/accounts are not.
Searching
In the top menu, you'll see the search icon. There, you can search for posts, communities etc.
You can just enter a search-word and it will find the Post-titles, post-content, communities etc containing that word that the server knows of. So any content any user of this server ever interacted with.
You can also search for a community by it's link, e.g. !Netherlands@lemmy.nl. Even if the server hasn't ever seen that community, it will look it up remotely. Sometimes it takes some time for it to fetch the info (and displays 'No results' meanwhile..) so just be patient and search a second time after a few seconds.
Creating communities
First, make sure the community doesn't already exist. Use search (see above). Also try https://browse.feddit.de/ to see if there are remote communities on other Lemmy instances that aren't known to Lemmy.world yet.
If you're sure it doesn't exist yet, go to the homepage and click 'Create a Community'.
It will open up the following page:
Here you can fill out:
- Name: should be all lowercase letters. This will be the /c/
- Display name: As to be expected, this will be the displayed name.
- You can upload an icon and banner image. Looks pretty.
- The sidebar should contain things like description, rules, links etc. You can use Markdown (yey!)
- If the community will contain mainly NSFW content, check the NSFW mark. NSFW is allowed as long as it doesn't break the rules
- If you only want moderators to be able to post, check that checkbox.
- Select any language you want people to be able to post in. Apparently you shouldn't de-select 'Undetermined'. I was told some apps use 'Undetermined' as default language so don't work if you don't have it selected
Reading
I think the reading is obvious. Just click the post and you can read it. SOmetimes when there are many comments, they will partly be collapsed.
Posting
When viewing a community, you can create a new post in it. First of all make sure to check the community's rules, probably stated in the sidebar.
In the Create Post page these are the fields:
- URL: Here you can paste a link which will be shown at the top of the post. Also the thumbnail of the post will link there. Alternatively you can upload an image using the image icon to the right of the field. That image will also be displayed as thumbnail for the post.
- Title: The title of the post.
- Body: Here you can type your post. You can use Markdown if you want.
- Community: select the community where you want this post created, defaults to the community you were in when you clicked 'create post'
- NSFW: Select this if you post any NSFW material, this blurs the thumbnail and displays 'NSFW' behind the post title.
- Language: Specify in which language your post is.
Also see the Lemmy documentation on formatting etc.
Commenting
Moderating / Reporting
Client apps
There are some apps available or in testing. See this post for a list!
Issues
When you find any issue, please report so here: 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
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.
I made a picture to try and explain a few basic concepts (hopefully) in a simple way, if you think it can help, feel free to link it in the guide, if not it's ok :)
As someone who used voat for awhiel here are my tips:
- USE this platform, don't use reddit. USE this platform and give it content. Content is basically the same as oxygen you can't deprive it, POST often and comment OFTEN.
- Don't dwell on reddit too much. Voat's only active communities were about shit posting on reddit (they had a /v/MeanwhileOnReddit and a few banned communities and that was it, nobody used any other communities). Find your favorite community and build it. Build just 1 ideally, anymore is too thin. I am building up https://lemmy.world/c/frugal
Voat died because they had the explicit policy of not moderating anything, it was a spamfest, even people crying the didn't want moderation couldn't stand it lol.
One could moderate their own community on voat and ban people from it, but nobody cared to even make communities that were not about either reddit or very grotesque racist content. It eventually died because quite frankly your right, people don't even want to touch a website like that with a proxy because it was way too hot and probably monitored by intel agencies. I know I stopped posting there once it turned into that, wasn't worth the personal risk of my ip being associated with that. But I think it was two things combined. The out of control content, but also the fact nobody used it other than to post extreme content, so if you banned the extreme content you would be left with nothing at all anyway.
Voat still around? That was a cesspool of nazis lmao
Shut down awhile ago.
Thank you! A user guide is sorely needed, I'm still overwhelmed by all this new stuff lol, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You absolutely are not the only one - it’s going to take some time to get used to Lemmy! Something someone else said in another thread: just make sure to keep participating! The more that happens, the faster this community can grow!
Is there any way to keep the content of the front page from jumping around like crazy while I'm trying to use it? It almost looks like it's updating live while just sitting there, but I can't imagine someone implementing a busy website that way after giving the idea more than two seconds of thought.
So if I understand correctly, there is are multiple Lemmy Servers. Each server has communities which are equivalent to subreddits. You can access communities that were created through other servers.
Is there a benefit to joining a specific Lemmy Server? Or is it the same experience no matter which server you join from?
Some instances are quite specific topic-wise, so for example mander.xyz is focused mostly on science stuff. In this case if you joined their instance, your local feed would be full of science discussion, and that might be something you want. If you're just choosing between more general instances then there's really no major difference, just pick one that has rules you vibe with.
Apart from the topic (if it's not a general instance) and admins, it can also matter for performance: if the server can barely manage the number of users it currently has, if it's close to you geographically (I don't know if it's a huge deal, but a server right next to you will always get your messages faster than one on the other side of the world).
When I'm on the homepage, I click "All" then sort by Hot. I get a nice list of posts from all over which is really good. But after a few seconds new posts take the top slots of hot and makes just scrolling through unusable. Is there a setting I'm missing for how to keep it from refreshing until I actually hit the refresh button?
As far as I know there's no setting. I think (or hope) it's just a bug, and the devs are working on fixing it.
The website is still kind of buggy, still pretty early stages.
This is fixed with 0.18 iirc, which is gonna be released soon. It’s not a bug, it’s an old feature that’s now annoying because of the increased userbase :)
The part that was confusing to me is even if I choose “All” when searching for communities, it doesn’t find communities I know exist on other instances. This post helped clear it up for me (I have to search for it by link to add it), so thanks! I am worried this is going to trip up a lot of people though.
Don't know if this is of any use to anyone, but someone posted link to Lemmy documentation, which includes markdown instructions and more. I've not actually read it all yet, but here's the link anyway: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/02-media.html
Suggestion: I think it might be good to add the https://browse.feddit.de/ to the homepage sidebar.
I hope that somewhere in Lemmy's development a system is added for federating/syncing each instance's Known Community List with each other, so even if no one on lemmy.world is interacting with some.site "yet" lemmy.world knows *about *it and about its communities (just their basic name etc data, not the contents) because lemmy.ml, or whoever, has established a link with some.site and lemmy.world talks to lemmy.ml and gets the list info from them.
Please add this!
Seconded
Really appreciating that a lot of help and guides are provided for newer users. That whole fediverse thing can be a bit overwhelming if you are starting to tinker around with it.
The FediDB site does not list lemmy.worlds hosting location, what country is the site hosted in?
ETA: I'm inclined to think the Netherlands based off of some quick googling, but confirmation would be nice.
Hosted at a Hetzner datacenter in Germany. I am in the Netherlands
The more people that Upvote and Downvote my comments here on Lemmy, I'm now curious to know if Upvoting and Downvoting on Lemmy hurts your overall experience much like how it does on Reddit?
For context: On Reddit, over the years I found myself deleting my posts and comments that got downvoted by any amount, but more so if it got double-triple number downvotes, not because I'm so incapable of having discussions and understanding and respecting people's opinions and points of view, but because other people could more or less control my Reddit experience, and that's just not fair or balanced. If you have low enough Karma you actually can be denied entry into subreddits. If you have low enough Karma you become limited on what you can even do on Reddit as a whole. Having low enough Karma can legitimately have negative effects on your general Reddit experience, and all it takes is for a handful of people who don't agree with what you're saying, who then choose to downvote your posts and comments.
There's no notion of karma on Lemmy, so I don't think that matters.
Goodbye Reddit and welcome Lemmy
So I think I've spotted a problem with how Lemmy's federation actually works. I can give you several examples, but I've spotted that there are several 'Technology' communities that originate on different servers. They're definitely different 'communities' because they have quite dissimilar subscriber numbers. That's potentially going to cause a lot of confusion going forward - I really don't want to have to subscribe to two or three of everything...
Thank you for having us here!
Already feels like home...
And man... It feels good to be here.
Getting great vibes from .world and all of Lemmy so far.
as a newcomer to all things federated (I skipped mastodon as I never used twitter), the best piece of advice I have is to not overthink the whole federation idea. Just sign up with an instance or two (I signed up to kbin.social and lemmy.world). See which instance format suits you best. You will (should) be able to interact with all other communities/magazines etc. I started off liking the interface of kbin more, but find myself using lemmy.world. Just start searching for communities, find ones with decent userbases and start interacting. Feel free to down this to oblivion if I have the wrong take on this!
can you explain what you mean by instance format, I signed up with Lemmy world and just downloaded jerboa but what would be the difference if I had signed up somewhere else?
I think of instances like nations or countries. Every country has its own citizens, so you are citizen of lemmy world, like me. Every country also has its own communities (subreddits). the difference is you can also go see another countries communities. And like countries in real life, countries here can all have their own culture or flavour. At the moment it seems to be still early days so instance/national identity is still developing. But it has a lot of potential.
What’s the difference between this and calckey
This is comparable to Reddit. Calckey is comparable with Twitter/Facebook
Thanks for making this post! It answered a lot of my questions, but I still have a few more. So I made my account with this server, Lemmy.world, and I can connect with any other server/community I want to with this account. Awesome. What happens though if this server were to be taken offline? Would my account still exist? Is there anything that would be lost aside from the content on this server?
Thanks this helps a lot. Coming over since they massacred by boy rif
Excellent post! Hello to all the reddit refuges... including myself lol
Hi, thanks for making this instance and post! I think one of the main things that prevented me from grasping the fediverse when I tried mastodon out earlier was not knowing about the common Activitypub protocol. The e-mail analogy that was being used didn't quite click for me, so I'm happy to have a much better understanding for this go around! Here's to greener pastures!
Hello ! For those like me that do not understand the sentences « Lemmy is a federated platform for news aggregation » nor « it means Lemmy is using a protocol which makes it possible for al Lemmy servers to interact », there is a good explanation here: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances (Link from https://join-lemmy.org/instances)
Like emails companies (gmail, outlook,…) you have multiple Lemmy server (Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml,…) than can communicate ( you can send an email from Gmail to Outlook).
So by register on one Lemmy server, you can interact on all Lemmy servers ( depending on server configuration, still) and then have access to multiple communities (aka subreddit)
RIF transplant. Happy to be here. Thank you for the tutorial looking forward to start playing catchup
I'm having trouble finding a Lemmy community from another instance. For example cloudcomputing@lemmy.ml on the Jerboa app. I even added the bang "!" but that didn't work either.
On a tangential note, how do I follow people from across the fediverse, for example Mastodon?
I see in this post it says that Lemmy communities can be followed from a Mastodon instance. Can the opposite be done too? Could I follow a Mastodon account via Lemmy.world?
Sorry if this is a really silly question, the Fediverse is still very new to me!
No I don't think so.
Ah okay, thanks for letting me know
This rundown is great @ruud@lemmy.world
Saved this for later. I feel like this will be really useful to sober me
I'm a dev interested in getting involved. I've followed on GitHub and I'm about to start diving into the various repos. Where is development being coordinated?
Github is the right place s most of the development is discussed in the issues and PRs there. There's also the Matrix space https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org which has various chat rooms regarding Lemmy/Jerboa development.
Also you're... me? :D At least our taste in usernames is very similar.
So funny story. I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't log in. I hadn't realized I typoed Colonel. I didn't do a pw request - just logged in with the email instead - but apologies if you got spammed with login attempts lol. Nice username! I'm not familiar with Matrix so I'll check it out and join.
I've been reading through the GitHub docs. Sounds like the Matrix space is probably what I'm looking for. PRs and issues are great for discussions specific to them but I feel awkward submitting feature requests as issues just to open discussion, ya know? Or like, discussing how to coordinate time so we don't have multiple people tackling the same thing - or could work together on them if so. So probably that. Thanks and I'll see ya there! I'll use a different username to avoid confusion lol
There's a Matrix channel you could join https://matrix.to/#/!OwmdVYiZSXrXbtCNLw:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de&via=mozilla.org
Thanks for this post, @ruud@lemmy.world. I’ve setup my own instance and am enjoying the lemmy experience so far.
At least the latest RC cut the post and save time in half, for me. That’s a measurable improvement. It definitely must be due to server load, as posting and saving to !lemmyworld@lemmy.world from my instance seems pretty snappy.
Yes it halved it here too, but half of 20 is still 10 seconds which is just too long. But hey, 3.2k users and it's still working so won't complain too much...
3.2k users is impressive. But yes, 10 seconds is bad. 2.5 seconds is about the max I find acceptable. If you don’t mind me asking, what are you running on, in terms of hardware?
I’m tempted to fire up jmeter, or locust, or k6 and push some load against my instance to see how things look internally under load.
If you don't mind me asking, do you see private instances as being sustainable for an individual, in the long run? I went that route with Mastodon and realized that with the nature of how it all works there would be a lot of overhead, for some time to come, with having to perform pre-fetch tricks to see follow-ups and stuff like that.
My initial impression is that Lemmy might be easier to contend with because each instance has it's own channels (pardon if that's the wrong term; I've been here all of 5 seconds) so the whole conversation is instantly available anytime you select a post. Just weighing whether going the private route is a good choice before I really start branching out and establishing my "identity".
Hi there! Please keep in mind I've only been a fedditor for a few days now, and have been running an instance for one day, and that day was mostly banging my head against the wall troubleshooting and figuring out setup issues (again thanks to the folks over at !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml). My instance also isn't private, and I have no problem if folks sign up on it and use it.
do you see private instances as being sustainable for an individual, in the long run?
I think that depends on the individual running the instance. I enjoy it, and the cost of the instance I setup is roughly $15 (USD) a month, plus I use it for other projects as well so it's not just for hosting lemmy. Regarding pitfalls of running an instance and overhead, well, I just don't know enough about it yet to comment on it.
Fuck reddit, long live Lemmy!
Does lemmy.world have any guidelines on what communities can and cannot be created? Is NSFW allowed? Are there any rules for what communities should NOT be created here?
Well I need to add a rule for that, for now it's just the mastodon.world rules. NSFW is allowed as long as it's marked NSFW, and again nothing against the rules (see https://mastodon.world/about)
Hi all. I hope this is the right place for getting help. I have a question, how do I subscribe to communities not on Lemmy.world? For example, a community on lemmy.ml
I created my account here because Lemmy.ml is suggesting to use alternate instances but I want to subscribe to some communities there but I get the error "not logged in" because I don't have an account there.
Thanks!
Just joined. I am trying to find my way around here and trying to figure out how things work. Last time I felt like this was my first day in the army. Lol.
Thank you for this, and I'll be checking back as it's populated with more info. I know nothing about coding, but if I can help with testing things or whatever, do let me know.
Thanks!
Hello, world!
Could you update this to point out one of the major differences that most Redditors won't expect?:
When using ActivityPub Upvotes and Downvotes are public to every service that reads into it (such as Kbin).Thanks for the sticky. This all feels very wild west!
Yet another Reddit refugee here! Thanks for the very informative post! I'm liking what I see so far 👍
What does "Subscribe Pending" mean?
I clicked the Subscribe button on !guildwars2@lemmy.ml but I get that yellow pending button instead of the green "joined". Is it because of the heavy load?
Not a big problem, I can read and post there, but I was curious.
Can we get this pinned to the top? I think K everyone needs to see this or some version of this
Thanks so much for this guide! i was not aware on how the accounts worked and I created the same account on multiple servers, is that a problem now?
If I understand how lemmy works, then when you make an account named “bob” on lemmy.world, then your full username is something like “bob@lemmy.world”.
So if you made another “bob” on somewhere.else, then that account’s full username would be something like “bob@somewhere.else”.
If I’ve got the right idea, then no it’s not a problem. Although you might want to consider deleting extra accounts, b/c these servers are still pretty small and 1 more account on one means 1 more to support
Thanks for the advice, will take me a while to get used to this, haha.
@ruud i think a good thing to mention would be copying the URL of a post or a comment to fetch and interact with it from your own instance.
Thanks so much for this guide.ive used mastodon in the past, but it's been a while. I'm not really a fan of the short-blurb content and prefer a forum-format, so here I am!
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the show_read_posts filter of the API? I see that it's implemented, but I can't find the option anywhere in the web UI.
PSA: I would suggest checking out https://browse.feddit.de/ instead of Google, when looking for existing communities. @ruud@lemmy.world may want to add this!
IME Google doesn’t necessarily index communities properly, and even if they do, they’re not always easy to find on a general-purpose search engine.
Thanks for all the info i feel like i finally understand. Hopefully people figure out how to migrate because a federated network of sites is much better and its about time everyone moved on from reddit!
this is great, thanks for this - going to have a good read through over the blackout for the next few days
It looks like Lemmy.world communities do not get regularly indexed on search engines. Is this because of the system architecture, or is it for some other reason?
How do we add the Instance to lemmur? Everything I try it just says instance not found.
Edit: nevermind, I found jeroba
Is there a beginners guide I can read so I could learn how to set up scheduled posts?
Thanks for the guide. Here's to a new future.
May I suggest to add a link to donate in order to contribute to the financial efforts behind Lemmy.world? @ruud@lemmy.world
Also, I know it's typed out somewhere, but I can't find it and couldn't understand it anyway. Could someone explain to me as if I'm technologically useless and just a bit dense generally, how to connect with communities on other instances? Something about copying links and pasting them somewhere? I'm on jerboa if that means anything.
Is there a way to collapse this post or hide it now that I’ve read it? It seems to be the first post in my feed, always.
That's because it's pinned, it's like sticky posts on reddit.
Better to stay it this way, it would be lost in the flood otherwise and new people wouldn't find it.
My SO is having a login issue, that I'm not experiencing myself. Everytime she closes Jerboa, it logs her out. She will end up as "anonymous" so you have to go into Settings and under Accounts, her account is not visible. She's gotta Add New Account everytime to input the account she already created and added. Hmm
Anyone else experiencing this? I am not and I'm wondering if it's user error on my part. I been using lemmy since last night and love it, I'm just trying to get her settled over here. Thanks!
First post on lemmy, looks cool. Thanks for the instance
Firefox on android doesn't let me login to lemmy. I have AdGuard installed and the add-on switched on. What could be the solution?
Edit: I haven't solved the problem, but after some time trying some things here and there, I think I know what's the issue. I have both Chrome and Firefox installed. I was using Lemmy on Chrome, so I tried to login in Firefox, and the issue started. I logged out on Chrome, and tried here on Firefox, it worked. TLDR: you can't have the same account logged in on both Chrome and Firefox.
Thank you, i was one of the reddit refugees and very confused
This helped a lot
ty for this
Would love to bail on Reddit if possible
I made a userscript (Lemmy post) which rewrites all links everywhere (not only on Lemmy) to always point to your home instance. It helps a lot with subscribing to communities and in general makes browsing the web and finding Lemmy links nicer.
I hope it catches on. I remember back in 2015 or so, a similar thing was going on and people wanted to migrate to Voat, but it turned into a racist hellhole.
goodbye reddit, hello lemmy!
Can we unsticky this post personally? I have to scroll through the guide each time I get on lemmy. And it’s quite long.
Yes I will put a link on the homepage
Thank you! You are a legend for setting this up
Thanks for the post! This was a great read for a new user like me.
Any interest in a comm for either MCU or Doctor Who?
Given that every instance pretty much has a copy of the whole fediverse on its own, isn't that incredibly inefficient? I can imagine as the fediverse grows the amount of storage required for each instance becomes too huge, maybe resulting in each instance needing to focus solely on certain groups of topics? Storing all that data can't be cheap nor environmentally friendly.
I'd really like to have the ability to disable embedded images in comments. I want to see only text, not 50 memes, RES had this as a feature.
This is likely a stupid question, but why can I instantly subscribe to some sublemmys? (I have no idea what the equivalent of subreddits are called in Lemmy) but on others my sub request remains pending indefinitely? Thanks.
I'd also like to know the answer to this question.
Same here
The thing that I'm struggling to understand is...
I get that Lemmy is essentially a platform of servers, but do I have create an account for every server? Do I need to create an account on lemmy.ml? Do I need to create an account on lemmynsfw.com?
I'm trying to use the app to browse when I'm not at a computer. I've seen mentions of "Jerboa" but it won't accept my login credentials. I've tried all three instances, no dice. Any suggestions? I use Android phone the most, but open to apps for iOS.
I can't figure out where to enter credentials. Trying various menu options yields the message "Login first" - OK, but where?
Did you manage to figure it out?
Can I hide this post somehow?
I will un-pin this when the major inflow of users is over, it's already getting less.
Are the algorithms that determine how our "front pages" are populated set at each Lemmy instance or by the protocol as a whole? Aside from blocked instances.
Can any posts be hidden? I haven't found that feature yet. I've looked on both the web version and jerboa.
I changed the screenshots in the picture to a light theme, I saw someone saying buttons are difficult to read on dark, could you please replace it in the guide? thanks :)
Done
Great initiative!
Bookmarking this. I may try to actually contribute something to these communities once I figure it all out. I like to kearn new stuff. Thanks for the info!
This is great. I've only known of the existence of the fediverse for half a day but I already can see this is the future.
We've just published a polish translation of this, with some minor changes; https://szmer.info/post/356383
Is there a file size limit for banners?
This is excellent, very helpful! I added a link to it in https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/#background
Hope that someone creates a Lemmy view much like old.reddit - way too spread out for me right now. Please, someone build this. :)
Some people are starting custom themes that you can use with browser plugins like Stylus, it will take some time, but I'm sure in time we'll have a lot of options.
Another ex redditor here!
What's upp I have landed. Thanks for the post!
So I’m a total newbie to this whole thing, and I’m sure I’m just being stupid, but I’m running into a weird problem. There’s a community on feddit.de that I’d like to participate in (!germany@feddit.de), and I found it successfully in the lemmy.world search, but when I go in via the search result, it doesn’t show any content. However going to the community directly on via the URL — https://feddit.de/c/germany — I see a post with a bunch of comments.
Is there something I’m missing here? I can subscribe and post via lemmy.world but it seems like I’m the only one in the community.
Thanks all! I’m really looking forward to getting a handle on this…
Thanks for making this post. It really helped me get a good overview of things. I hope it develops with a more glass half full attitude than the "I'm sorry I can't do that Dave" attitude that Reddit has adopted.
Has anybody an idea how to get the thumbnails to work properly?
I the post here it says once using the 'Upload Image' function, that the image will show in the post and as thumbnail. The latter doesn't seem to work for me on Jerboa.
The only way that worked for me so far was to link the uploaded image (via the button) by adding the url as
to the body of the post.When I browse communities and switch to allI am able to find some off server communities that I would like to join, but when I go to the link, I am unable to subscribe. The subscribe button doesn't seem to work. Is this because the server doesn't federate with the other one? I am trying to add some nature/science related communities from the https://mander.xyz server.
What is the ideal resolution for a community banner so as not to unnecessarily 'weigh it down' with a super high-resolution image?
I created a community (!wlw_memes@lemmy.world) and made a test post to it, and the image only shows up if you click into the post, not as a thumbnail in the community page, instead it shows the markup of the url, am I doing something wrong?
How do i unblock someone? It was an accident
In your settings, there's a Blocks tab.
Thanks. Idk how i didnt see that
Thank you!
Gunners
Hey Ruud. I am attempting to create a community in this instance (lemmy.world) but I keep getting stuck. Basically whenever I try to put in the name I keep getting "please follow the format required". In case you are wondering the community I am trying to create is called Terrible meme hub and I plan on making it this places equalvent to r/terriblefacebookmemes. I have a banner and an icon. I am just having difficulty with the name formatting. Please help.#
Thank you so much @ruud@lemmy.world! This is so helpful! :D
I don't know why you were at 0 votes for this, but thanks for taking this on! I think a lot of folks will benefit.
Edit: vote count is probably incorrect and just due to being from a newer instance!
I created the !wlw_memes@lemmy.world community and dried to share it with another community on lemmy.ml: and apparently they just get a 404 at https://lemmy.ml/c/wlw_memes@lemmy.world, it's been that way for quite some time, am I doing something wrong? Is federation breaking down?
What does create remote post or comment mean? Does this mean we can post onreddit from here or something?
It means that any other Fediverse tool can post to Lemmy
How do I disable new posts from appearing dynamically? Right now i sort posts by whatever but after a short time new posts starts accumulating at the top like this: https://i.imgur.com/RvZ8C73.png
why did that top one appear??
That's a bug which will be fixed in the next version
Is the registration closed on lemmy.world? It does not seem to go through when signing up. I know you can choose another instance but I just thought it could be confusing when sign-up still looks open and is encouraged in this guide.
Edit: Resolved. Apparently there was some delay in the server. Got the verification email now. While I was retrying without the email, on the sign-up and login pages, the loading wheel just kept spinning. But all is fine now. Thanks!
Check your mail (both normal inbox and spam). You might’ve gotten a verification ail.
Resolved now. Apparently there was some delay in the server for the verification email to arrive. Everything is fine now. Thanks!
No. If it doesn't work probably the username was already taken or too long or the password was too long. It doesn't say when it is..
Is there a place to discuss moderating? I'm new to being a mod and I was wondering if mods should be able to edit post titles/body to follow community guidelines?
I can't seem to create an account on lemmy.world directly (though I appear to be able to access via lemmy.ca). When I enter all my details on the sign up and click the button - it just spins for ever. I have tried a few times a day over the last 3 days. Any idea what could be the problem? I was able to sign up on beehaw and lemmy.ca with no issues. Is it a known issue - or are sign ups on hold?
I had the same problem when I signed up. Have you verified your email address? My verification email went to spam, so I nearly missed it. As soon as I followed through with it, my login worked.
Also have experienced all of what you describe.
you need to verify your email. the captcha is broken so it breaks the login. verifying email fixed it for me
Polskie tłumaczenie, z drobnymi zmianami: https://szmer.info/post/356383
When trying to create a new community, after pressing the create button, I get stuck in that screen (that shows something is loading). Am I doing something wrong?
that info graphic was great! thanks for posting this
Would it be an idea to add the alternative interfaces in this post?
Is creating new communities currently broken (overwhelmed server?) or is it just me?
I just created a community without issue.
Thank you for this helpful post!
Thanks for this!
Thank you very much for this post! It helped me a lot. I suggest caution with using browse.feddit.de though. They do not include all instances - like for example my home instance reddthat.com - you might miss a great community because of that.
Thanks
This really helped me understand Lemmy and Mastodon so much better. I get it know. Now it just learning where to go to find things I did with Reddit.
Could someone help me add my lemmy community to kbin? I've been trying to add !webtoons@lemmy.world to kbin.social but putting it into the search finds nothing. Going to kbin.social/m/webtoons@lemmy.world just gets 404 not found error.
Helpfull!
New users: this instance is too large, please join a smaller instance.
Hello! I signed up for an account with a different username, but I believe I input the wrong email. Is there a way to get this fixed as I would like to use the first account I created. Thanks!
Hi, thanks for the post. I migrated here immediately after Boost started not working well any more.
Thank you for this guide! Helped me alot!
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the show_read_posts filter of the API? I see that it's implemented, but I can't find the option anywhere in the web UI.
The search using !community@instance format never works for me. I always have to enter just the community name and look through the list to see if it’s there.
Is there a way to pause the feed when browsing all/new?
It's adding new posts faster than I can even scroll, I see something I want to look at and POOF, it's gone to who knows where.
Thank you for this post @Ruud. I'm a Reddit refugee like a lot of new users today, and I didn't quite understand what Lemmy was until I read your post. Now it makes complete sense.
please add turkish language
Not sure if this was raised already, but how come og:images don't show up on article posts in lemmy.world?
How do I add someone as a moderator to a community?
Under a comment, there's a menu (3 dots). There you'll find it. (Must be a comment in the community you make them mod)
Aha! Thank you :D
Are there any more guides for Moderators and about editing communities? e.g. can images and banners be edited after creation? Where exactly are the mod tools options to found as a moderator? I'm very new to this and there is very little that is obvious to me.
This basic guide is very helpful but where can I find more? thanks in advanceIs it possible to stop the new posts auto-scrolling the screen up? I can't read a headline without 20 new posts teleporting it away!
That's a bug in the websockets implementation. We're waiting for 0.18 which removes websockets entirely
This auto-updating of the timeline is a platform killer for me. Yes, I understand it's a bug and it will be fixed with a future update. However, if this bug was widely advertised as a bug and people knew it was a bug, then most people would stick around Lemmy and wait patiently. I was one click away from abandoning Lemmy before reading your post. Just saying.
So if an instance 'defederates' another instance, it effectively means all content from them is blocked while using the instance which defederated them?
@RealFknNito @ruud No, just new content. And your posts won't show to them.
Hi,
I noticed that thumbnails of links are not showing here https://lemmy.world/c/world, whereas same news link posted on https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews is working fine, why is that?
Here is an example of the same news link on both communities:
https://lemmy.world/post/260407 (no thumbnail)
https://lemmy.ml/post/1317159 (with thumbnail)
Thanks
i don’t see it described here. i get the difference between “subscribed” and “all” but what the hell is ”local”?
If I understand correctly, 'Local' is a feed with only posts that were made on the local server. So here on lemmy.world, that would contain only posts to communities hosted on lemmy.world. Whereas the 'All' feed brings in posts from other servers that lemmy.world knows about. So posts from lemmy.ml or beehaw.org will be included. It does seem to take a bit longer to populate the All feed though, and you'll notice posts 'pop' in as you scroll.
That's what Ferawyn (I have no idea how to tag them) said:
"All" shows all posts from any community from any non blocked instance/server by your instance/server.
"Subscribed" shows only the communities you are subscribed to, no matter the instance/server it is as long as it is a non blocked one.
"Local" shows all the communities belonging to the instance/server in which you are located.
Can I change my @handle (not display name)? I messed up.
Grab a new one before it's too late?
I am unable to create a community. The thing just keeps spinning and doesn't do anything. Trying to get things sorted out here to get my users to transfer from reddit ultimately.
Probably it already exists, or has existed and was deleted. Which name do you try to create?
Anyone else having issues trying to create a community? I input everything and get the loading symbol but it never goes past that, no matter how long I leave it.
See here https://lemmy.world/post/15786
