As long as you can clear the single minor technical barrier to entry you're welcome here. It may be the lowest of hurdles, but Reddit threw all their hurdles away a while ago and just let anyone capable of moving forward on a flat surface in.
Fediverse memes
Memes about the Fediverse.
Rules
General
- Be respectful
- Post on topic
- No bigotry or hate speech
Specific
- We are not YPTB. If you have a problem with the way an instance or community is run, then take it up over at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
- Addendum: Yes we know that you think ml/hexbear/grad are tankies and or .world are a bunch of liberals but it gets old quickly. Try and come up with new material.
Elsewhere in the Fediverse
Other relevant communities:
- !fediverse@lemmy.world
- !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !lemmydrama@lemmy.world
- !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
- !bestofthefediverse@lemmy.ca
- !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
And bots. Don't forget the bots
All I want is keep scrolling new funny. Lemmy gives me that.
My main thing right now is trying to figure out how to visit/subscribe to other communities, particularly those outside of Aussie.zone
It's just a bunch of reddits all whispering in each others ears
Hey sh.itjust.works, tell feddit.uk to leave this comment and upvote
Sh.itjust.works: "Hey feddit.uk, starman2112@sh.itjust.works said to leave this comment and upvote"
Feddit.uk: "Hey lemmy.zip, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left this comment"
Lemmy.zip: "Hey Blaze, starman2112@sh.itjust.works left a comment"
And then all the federated instances get on the group chat and update the vote counter
Edit: I didn't even realize I was commenting on feddit.uk lmao this game of telephone is wild
Good.
The barrier to entry is a feature! All those fools on FB and Reddit are there because they're told there's no friction. It's the internet version of Wal-Mart. Anyone can find their way in.
I want to hang with people who are at least smart enough to tie their shoes sign up for a Costco membership. It's a LOW barrier to entry, and that's more than enough.
The barrier to entry is a feature!
What? No it isn't. Any individual instance is as simple to navigate as Reddit. The federation aspect is still in an early stage of development and implementation.
Twenty years ago, Reddit was in a similar state. It took a long time and a lot of effort to improve the system enough to be easily navigated and searchable (and then more time to mangle these features in the name of monetization).
But the idea that federated instances being difficult to traverse and filter against are intentional is utterly bogus.
I want to hang with people who are at least smart enough to tie their shoes
If you're not navigating Lemmy via VIM, you are literally a baby who shits himself and needs someone to change his diaper.
Wow. You're very much not understanding - I'm definitely not saying it's intentional. It's a take on the "It's not a bug, it's a feature" notion.
I'm saying that signing up for Lemmy not being as one-size-fits-all intuitive as Web 2.0 social media is a net benefit because anyone who tries to sign up, gets confused SO easily, and then frustrated and gives up is not the kind of person we want taking up server space on a Lemmy instance.
Seems like a sound though-process
I’m kinda in this boat right now too hahah
Any questions we could answer for you?
I would appreciate it if you could explain how I browse instances. I am using Voyager on iOS, not sure if that’s relevant, and I was trying to search for hexbear since people keep talking about it. Nothing comes up.
Then I tried searching for lemmy.ca, but it didn’t appear as something I could go through and browse, just a few of the communities there showing up in search results. What am I doing wrong? Or misunderstanding…
Heh, I read your comment using Voyager on Android. Yeah, makes it easier for me to check how things are done on your phone that we happen to have the same telephone client app.
Probably the easiest way to grasp these things is to browse Lemmy on a full-fledged computer. Voyager can do everything the interface made by Lemmy's developers can do. (Plus, Voyager has a sensible way of reading your own private messages, while I have no idea how to return to them on the "official" web interface)
Since a phone has a cramped screen, all kinds of hocus-pocus needs to be done to fit the same features on the small screen. So, use it on a big screen of a computer and you'll get things much better. So, here goes:
Now, open a web browser, write "lemmy.world" on the address bar and then click "Login" in the upper right corner. Write "buttnugget" in the field "Email or Username" and your password in, well, wherever you feel it would fit well.
Now you're logged in in the same instance you always use with Voyager.
Press "Local" here, and you will see content only on communities hosted on lemmy.world:
And then do some more browsing around Lemmy.world, just like you'd do with your phone.
Next, write some other instance's address on your browser's URL field. I'm using Sopuli, so that's one option: Try writing sopuli.xyz as the address. You can try logging in again, bit it won't work, because you don't have a user account on sopuli.xyz.
So, go back to Sopuli's main page and click "Local". You'll see only content hosted on sopuli.xyz.
Having browsed those enough, click "Communities" on the upper part of the screen, here:
...and then make sure you have "Local" chosen. Choose any community you reasonably like and click on its name. On the upper right corner, press Subscribe, here:
Clicking that button gives you a dialogue asking "Enter the instance you would like to follow this community from". Write the address of your own instance there, in your case lemmy.world. Sopuli will then tell .world that you'd like to subscribe to that community, and lemmy.world will handle the rest of the subscribing. So, even though you're browsing a completely different instance, you can still also subscribe to communities there.
But alas... Some instances use a theme that has no "Subscribe" button. Which is weird. Try for example suppo.fi .
Still, there's something you can do: If you see anything interesting on any other instance, just copy the address from the URL bar, then go to your own instance (lemmy.world), click the search button here:
...and then paste the URL here and press [Search]:
You could also try feddit.org to see how the biggest German-speaking Lemmy instance looks like when you press "Local". Or lemmy.pt to see something in Portuguese :))
But now, let's get to answering the original question:
I do not think Voyager has a feature for viewing the content of one single instance only, unless you create a user account there. And that's a bit cumbersome. What you can do is open the web browser on your phone, then open some instance on its browser and either click the subscribe button if it exists on that instance's theme, or copypaste the URL of the interesting thing to the search of lemmy.world, again using your phone's browser. On lemmy.world you'll need to click the hamburger menu on the upper right corner in order to find the login button:
Of course, if you want to subscribe to things with your own account, you need to be logged in :) Whatever you subscribe to with any browser will then immediately be visible on Voyager as well, as it's just another interface for the same Lemmy.
What you can, however, do on Voyager, is press "Posts" on the lower part of your screen (sometimes you need to press it several times):
And then click "All" here:
That will show you content regardless of what instance it was published on. But, as you remember from having browsed the various instances on your web browser, there's a lot of content you cannot see in that view. But, what you can indeed do is open the interesting instances on your phone's browser (or your computer's browser), browse the communities there, and subscribe to whatever you find interesting. Remember, you'll only need to do this once, because once you've found the communities you find interesting and subscribed to them, they'll be visible on Voyager just fine :) If for whatever reason you want to have user accounts on several communities at once, Voyager does support that. Once you've created a user account on some instance, you can add it to Voyager.
And to close this short textlet:
You can see a short list of the biggest instances here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances .
And a full list of all 597 lemmy instances here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list .
I will read this tomorrow. Holy crap. Thanks so much for taking the time!
Human's gotta do what human's gotta do :)
I followed reddit sync over to lemmy. I didn't know how anything works but my experience has been roughly the same as it was with Reddit. I like the discussion here more though.
Exactly the same. And I still don't know anything about this place after 2 years. At least here I bothered to create a profile unlike reddit where I was just browsing and never posting anything
how is feddi formed?
I actually saw an ad for Lemmy on reddit and here I am. Figuring out enough to make an account was worth it. They should do more ads.. or maybe not. We don't want too many of them coming here. Im still trying to cleanse my brain of the juice I drank.
Tbf you are dependent on all because most channels are dead/very slow.
Bro is right
I don't understand why sometimes when I click on asklemmy at the top of the old.lemmy.world ui, sometimes it goes to regular asklemmy and sometimes it goes to asklemmy@lemmy.ml. And I don't understand why these two communities have completely different posts.
They are two completely different communities that just happen to share their names. (And one of them is full of tankies, while yours isn't)
How this works is the same with email: You can have john.smith@gmail.zz and you can have john.smith@outlook.com , but although those do have the same first name, the two addresses do not point to the same mailbox.
If a community is on your own instance (servers are called instances on Lemmy), then the part after @ is not shown. So, there is asklemmy@lemmy.world, and there is asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The latter one is luckily empty, as nothing on .ml is written without serious brainrot.
The one you see only as "asklemmy" is asklemmy@lemmy.world.
There are actually this many asklemmys:
Each of the above is an independent community. Each one was founded by a different person and has different moderators, etc.
When you login to Lemmy, you go to lemmy.world and login there.
I don't. I do not have a user account on lemmy.world, which is one of the instances (servers) for Lemmy.
However, I do have a user account on sopuli.xyz, which is another instance. When I log in to that, I can read anything written on any instances that have federated with sopuli.xyz. We are having this conversation in a community on yet another instance:
As you can see there, this community is located on an instance called lemmy.uk.
So, I am reading this through sopuli.xyz, which has a connection to lemmy.uk. When I write something, Sopuli sends all the text to lemmy.uk which then saves it. And then your instance, lemmy.world, has a connection to lemmy.uk as well, and shows you whatever is shown on that instance. When a Lemmy-instance creates such a connection to another instance, it is called federating.
The nice thing about this construction is that if someone tries taking over Lemmy, they only take over their own instance. Its users can just migrate to another instance, create an account there and continue almost as if nothing had happened. And if some instance is not moderating its users' activities properly, other instances can defederate from it. That means: They can stop showing their users content from the badly behaving instance, and also the users from that instance won't see anything held on the other instance.
I hope this blabbering helped!
Lemmy isn't too hard, it's just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn't downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.