I’ve actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.

  1. I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it’s not working. I’ve used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it’s not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?

  2. I’ve also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?

    • spaduf@slrpnk.net
      7·
      11 months ago

      Consider putting the mention at the end as the first line of your post will become the post title. So

      Lorem ipsum
      Text text text
      @lorem@ipsum

      On Mastodon will give you a lemmy post that looks like

      Title:

      Lorem ipsum

      Body:

      Text text text
      @lorem@ipsum

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
        5·
        11 months ago

        You need to add line breaks to your example here. Otherwise you are giving some very bad advice.

            • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
              5·
              11 months ago
              One single newline
Leads to no line break at all

Double space before the newline  
Should yield a line break

Double newline 

Leads to paragraph break

              One single newline Leads to no line break at all

              Double space before the newline
              Should yield a line break

              Double newline

              Leads to paragraph break

                • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
                  3·
                  11 months ago

                  It’s in the holy text: the markdown standard.

                  Ninja edit: the reason is because a single line break should have no formatting effect so that markdown files can be opened and show up better in terminal editors like vim or emacs. It’s good to be able to break a line when it gets too long in editors which don’t use page formatting to handle line wrapping (ie. like MS Word does). So you need something other than a single newline character to represent a rendered paragraph break.

    • ctkatz@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      it said incorrect login credentials when trying to log in.

      the link in the email takes me nowhere but a blank page.

      • Inductor@feddit.de
        3·
        11 months ago

        I don’t know enough about the lemmy server to say whether this is a regular issue. I’d just retry creating a user with the same email.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 months ago
    1. Many different potential things, your application question might be in review, your browser might need to clear cache, your email verification didn’t work yet or other things.
    2. To post to Lemmy from Mastodon, you just have to mention the community name somewhere in your Mastodon post. For example @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

    Bear in mind, the first line becomes the title of post and the rest is in the body, so it’s recommended to add the mention later.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    11 months ago

    I’m not sure about your first question, but for the second: Mastodon and Lemmy are both part of the Fediverse, implementing the ActivePub protocol. But what each offers is not really compatible with the other. Mastodon is microblogging, whereas Lemmy is link/news aggregator. The semantics of each also don’t match: does favorite-ing in Mastodon post equal a Lemmy upvote?

    So while you can’t natively cross-post between the two systems, there’s no reason why an app can’t integrate the experience of both seamlessly. And in any case, sharing content from one to another is as simple as including the URL.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
      7·
      11 months ago

      whereas Lemmy is news aggregator.

      Lemmy is ranked-threaded discussion software.

      • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I’ll meet you half way, as the intro text at join-lemmy.com prominently proclaims: “Lemmy: a link aggregator for the Fediverse”. I’ve edited my answer, although I’m concerned what other parts of it will prove to be wrong lol