This is exactly why I’m worried that this’ll just die off and reddit will keep chugging along. This is not nearly user friendly enough to beat out reddit
On a whim tonight I just went to https://join-lemmy.org/ from a reddit post, looked at the list of servers, found lemmy.world accepting logins, created an account, and here I am. Was super painless/fast. BUT, now to figure out how to sub to communities and setup my feed!
Open the search and you can find a community using the search field. To search for communities specifically it’s: !community-name@instance-name. Then it will show that community as a search result, and from your instance you can subscribe to it. No need to go make a new user on every instance you want to sub to one of their communities.
I figured out how to subscribe to communities, but not sure how this works. Like I wonder if when a community is created if it propagates to the federation, or if you can have multiple “XYZ” communities.
Correct, and unfortunately it will fragment those users into silos I believe. I saw in one of the stickies, for new users to search for communities before creating duplicates.
Try searching for it using the search field on your instance. If it’s not federated with your instance yet, you have to search with the address, and wait a bit.
Yeah, I don’t know how it was for others but, for me, Reddit was hella confusing when I first joined it.
It’ll take a while but it seems like this is a place I can settle in. And, even if it isn’t, I do like the idea of the fediverse and I think I’ll stick around to see it grow in one platform or another.
It’s all new, if a bit confusing, but I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it like I did with Aim, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and now Lemmy.
So far, so confused 😕
This is exactly why I’m worried that this’ll just die off and reddit will keep chugging along. This is not nearly user friendly enough to beat out reddit
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On a whim tonight I just went to https://join-lemmy.org/ from a reddit post, looked at the list of servers, found lemmy.world accepting logins, created an account, and here I am. Was super painless/fast. BUT, now to figure out how to sub to communities and setup my feed!
Yeah I don’t understand how to search for subreddits. I also don’t know how this is structured… And there’s no clear way to explore and figure it out
Open the search and you can find a community using the search field. To search for communities specifically it’s:
!community-name@instance-name. Then it will show that community as a search result, and from your instance you can subscribe to it. No need to go make a new user on every instance you want to sub to one of their communities.OMG. Thank you.
No problem! Happy to make using lemmy easier.
I figured out how to subscribe to communities, but not sure how this works. Like I wonder if when a community is created if it propagates to the federation, or if you can have multiple “XYZ” communities.
There are multiple communities with the same name. See /c/technology@beehaw.org and /c/technology@lemmy.ml
Correct, and unfortunately it will fragment those users into silos I believe. I saw in one of the stickies, for new users to search for communities before creating duplicates.
You might find the community browser helpful.
OK, I found a community I want to join. I copied its address. Now what???
Try searching for it using the search field on your instance. If it’s not federated with your instance yet, you have to search with the address, and wait a bit.
Yet another thing to learn lol
Yeah, I don’t know how it was for others but, for me, Reddit was hella confusing when I first joined it.
It’ll take a while but it seems like this is a place I can settle in. And, even if it isn’t, I do like the idea of the fediverse and I think I’ll stick around to see it grow in one platform or another.