There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.
Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!
Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!
edit: Here’s a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
i should have added it here a while ago!
Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.
The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.
It’s like email but Reddit style
That makes way more sense!
The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn’t a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I’ve seen doesn’t work all the time, but could be because of server load.)
Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it’s only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)
It’s easy with Mlem on iOS
Yeah I find it a bit annoying, maybe a browser extension which adds a link to “view in home instance” is the way to go in the meantime. Seems like it would be really easy to do. 🤔
Yeah, I read that before, but I didn’t really understand what that meant.
Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.
Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.
Yeah I’ve been looking at the w3 spec. It’s interesting. I think there isn’t yet a good explainer page for newbies.
Yeah I have to remember to look at the spec. Some of the things seem kinda odd to me, currently there’s an issue on Lemmy about upvotes, and how the instance the post is on forwards every upvote to every server with over one user joined to the community, which with maybe 100 servers, 1,500 upvotes, it can get to be a lot of requests.
Mastodon gets around this by not federating likes, currently in the issue they’re discussing sending the upvotes in chunks (ex. #upvotes in past hour)
Seems like there’s still some work to do on the backend of Lemmy, but I have faith it’ll get figured out soon.
My first post, and hopefully the picture i attached works. This is Loki, my 27 year old macaw, one of 2 rainbow chickens i have
This here’s my birds
so friggin cute! i miss having chickens. no more free breakfast!
Lol this Mlem app is sweet but I can’t see your photo, it just shows up as large but I can’t scroll along it.
cute
Hey fellow (mostly) Canadians! Reddit Refugee of 13 years, this is my first Lemmy experience. I originally made a Lemmy.world account, but moved here as I felt more comfortable having the server hosted in Canada for data integrity/security.
Seems like a neat place, the distributed/“federated” stuff was a bit confusing at first, but seems neat. I guess we’ll see how big the migration from Reddit to here is.
Hello from the forests of Quebec. I’m a huge fan of decentralization and open source tools. I will be hanging around here and watching reddit implode from afar. I was one of the digg exodus crowd, so I know that there is no way I can live without a link aggregator and discussion platform, lemmy seems like an instant win to me!
Hello from Canada’s best and most important and relevant province!
Manitoba!
yessss!
I’m a recent transplant from BC, don’t know if I’m allowed to call myself a Manitoban yet, but I do feel at home :)
I left MB 10 years ago for Sask! I miss the lakes and trees but we have a nice little home here. It’s also cool that people who live in the cities here aren’t scared to leave them!
Hey again, been a while since I posted in this thread! Was hoping to clarify a bit on the Lemmy.ca rules if I could. I have two questions:
- What is the stance on NSFL/gore content? Allowed, discouraged, banned?
- We have the rule “No porn.” This sounds simple, but what is classified as porn. Is all nudity porn? Is nudity alright in an artistic context such as the Statue of David? What about a medical/injury setting, or a non-pornographic setting such as “public freakout” videos?
I ask these questions as I moderate !roadcam which could have both of these sorts of content posted to it, if not often. I am unsure if I want to ban that content outright, but it would be handy to know the instance rules first.
One thing I find confusing is the notification bell icon. I notice that even if I check it, it still registers the same number of notifications that it had done previously. This number never seems to go down. What’s with that?
you have to manually mark them as “read”, unless you’re replying. don’t think there’s a way to change that currently?
Hello fellow humans. I’m actually from a different CA, California. But I’m a believer that you should choose an instance based upon the administration not on topic, and this one feels much more in line with my sensibilities than the other large ones. Sorry to stereotype, but the conversations feel kinder here than elsewhere (even by the already nice standards of lemmy instances overall.)
I don’t much like sharing personal type information online, so I hope you’ll forgive my brevity. I don’t work in tech, but have had a lifelong interest in it so I feel right at home here at the ground floor of a new community.
So… still wrapping my head around the whole concept of of federated spaces. By way of comparison, if I go to Reddit, and I search for subreddits, it searches all of reddit, and pulls up the relevant information. If I do a search here, am I searching ONLY the Lemmy.ca server, or does that search ALL of the Lemmy fediverse? If not, how does one do that? CAN one do that? Sorry for the newbie questions. I want to make the move from Twitter/Reddit to Mastodon/Lemmy, but I want to get it so I can indoctrinate my over cautious, set-in-their-ways friends. :)
I could be wrong, but I believe when you search it searches all constant that has been “federated” to the server your searching on. in other words, any remote communities that are subscribed by users on this instance will be searched. something along those lines, anyways, haha.
Thank you for your reply! See, that’s what I thought, but I tried a few searches that I was sure would pull up a community–things like “fashion” or “volkswagen” or “Beatles” and I come up with no search results. I’d buy that those communities may not exist in a new(er) Canadian-focused server, but across the whole Fediverse of servers? I dunno. I still think there’s things about this place that I don’t get. Ah well, in time, I’ll learn I’m sure. Thank you again for taking the time to reply.
I just ran a quick test. I found the fashion community from lemmy.ml (by searching directly on their site), and subscribed to it. now when you search here for
fashionit shows up. so you might be better off searching some of the bigger instances directly, then subscribing to them from here.So how do you subscribe to communities that aren’t listed yet? I get subscribe links for ones that have been federated, but so far have found no way to subscribe to a non-federated community, even when I know its name. I’m using the mobile interface.
if you have the url for the community (usually
https://<instance>/c/<community>, for example:https://beehaw.org/c/music), click on the top-right menu bar, then the magnifying glass. enter/paste the community url into the search field, click on search. it should show up as one of the results (and sometimes takes a try or two for some reason?).the result you want will look something like this:
also, if you know the url, you can also just figure out the url for the local instance:
https://lemmy.ca/c/<community>@<instance>, for example:https://lemmy.ca/c/music@beehaw.orghope that makes sense!
Thanks! That helps a lot!
Oh… so you need to search directly on other instances to find communities. Hmm… bit of a shot in the dark there, but I’ll give it a try. Thank you for the guidance!
yeah, basically. if no one from this instance is subscribed to a remote community then it won’t show up in the search.
Hold up, so if anyone as a member of this instance has subscribed to any community outside of this instance, it becomes searchable from within this instance, while if the community is entirely unknown within this instance, you need to find it ‘out there’ somewhere and subscribe whereupon you’re good (and it can then be found by any member of this instance)? That’s my understanding based on this discussion, anyway. :)
also, this might help too: https://browse.feddit.de/
yes, that’s exactly it!
So I joined the .ml instance because .can wasn’t listed…but is there a reason why it’s so difficult to find the communities from Lemmy.ca when I search?
Would it be easier to just make a .ca account ?
this might help too: https://browse.feddit.de/
This is a nice to have, thanks. I’ve found the .ca is a lot snappier than .ml
Is there a recommendation on the best android app to use?
i think jerboa is the only actively developed one currently. it’s developed by one of the main lemmy developers as well.
i currently just use a web browser, to access on mobile & desktop, it works well enough for me.
you can also just browse the communities on lemmy.ca, and search for them on .ml to subscribe to them. or you can just create another account too.
Hello everyone,
This is my first post on Lemmy. I haven’t posted on social media since 2020 due to my fear of engagement algorithms.
So far, I really like it. The interface is clean, and it’s easy to use.
Cheers
As someone who used to use FIDONet in the 90s, I have to say that I feel right at home in the Fediverse :)
It would be nice if each Lemmy instance could have its own design/custom features just like BBSes.
not really the same thing, but each instance could have their own custom theme(s). I’ve thought about it but never actually tried.
bbs’s were a lot of fun back in the day!
Seems to work. 👏
Hello! I have a question. In the settings, there’s this thing called the Matrix User. What is it for/What does it do, and would it be useful to make a Matrix account?
Matrix is basically a decentralized (Lemmy/Mastodon-like) chat service. Basically decentralized discord.
yes, if you have a Matrix account, or if you create one and put it in there, then other users will see a “Send Secure Message” button on your profile page, which will open Matrix to send you an encrypted message.
Oh ok. Thanks for the clarification!
To expand on that, Matrix is a secure chat that operates in a similar fashion to Lemmy.
Oh ok, thank you!
No sweat
Hello fellow Canucks! Slowly getting used to how this all works and gotta admit, it’s kind of neat so far! Looking forward to trading my crippling reddit addiction for a crippling Lemmy addiction.
