'Beginner's Guide to Lemmy' Collection

3 years ago by zinklog to c/freemediaheckyeah

I know people are confused about how fediverse works and how to use it. This is an attempt to compile a list of beginner's guides made by some amazing people on this topic.

Unsunny's Guide - An easy to read guide aimed at redditors migrating to Lemmy or Kbin
Lemmy.world Starting Guide - A beginner's guide to Lemmy by the admin of lemmy.world instance.
db0's New User Guide - A guide for new users on Lemmy made by head mod of r/piracy.
lemm.ee FAQ - Beginner's Guide by admin of lemm.ee
Michael Altfield's Guide - A guide on finding Lemmy Communities (Lemmy version of Subreddits)
Fedi.tips - A comprehensive guide for Fediverse and Mastodon. Useful for Lemmy aswell.
r/KbinMigration's Guide - Redditor's guide to how Kbin works.
Join the Fediverse - Fediverse Wiki

I will update this list if any new guide is made so you can save this post for later. Also, if anyone has any good guide to add post it in the comments and I'll add it here.

db0 11 points 3 years ago

Thanks for linking my guide mate!

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Undefined0968 8 points 3 years ago

Is there some script to automate finding any of the 100's of subreddits, YouTube channels etc, we're subscribed to, To migrate?

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Dave 1 point 3 years ago

there's this https://github.com/... I saw around but didn't tried yet.

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Dave 1 point 3 years ago

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Dave 1 point 3 years ago

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Dave 1 point 3 years ago

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TheGentleMen 7 points 3 years ago

From a Reddit refugee I love this. Is there any current way to save posts like this?

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zinklog 7 points 3 years ago

Yep! Click on star icon to save any post and it'll get stored in your profile.

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Deadpixel 6 points 3 years ago

Have we created a list of piracy related Lemmy subs that our FMHY members can use to jump start their new accounts?

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zinklog 6 points 3 years ago

I think it's just us and r/piracy who have set up lemmy rn. If and when more piracy communities join us here we will make a list.

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Deadpixel 2 points 3 years ago

Ahh I see, thank you for the heads up!

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Azceptit 6 points 3 years ago

Yeah…. finding subs is hard here. Needs to be simplified.

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zinklog 2 points 3 years ago

Once a community is searched by someone, they should be in the communities > All section. But yeah finding brand new communities is hard.

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knowncarbage 2 points 3 years ago

https://browse.feddit.de/

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Azceptit 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah but you have to have an IT degree to subscribe to something. Even on that website we can’t just hit “subscribe”

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tallwookie 3 points 3 years ago

you basically have to find the !community@domain string, then copy it and paste it back into your home instance search field & search for it, then navigate to it from your home instance to subscribe to it.

it's very cumbersome but it does work. perhaps things will change in the future, or maybe not.

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primaryuser 6 points 3 years ago

Wayback Machine link to r/KbinMigration's guide for those trying to avoid giving Reddit traffic right now

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MacDougal 5 points 3 years ago

Brand newb here. Do i have to join all of them with different logins or?

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Purrington 6 points 3 years ago

No, but you can interact with different instances, like how I am commenting from beehaw.org instance.

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Overkill8813 4 points 3 years ago

I definitely need answers for this, too.

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Purrington 5 points 3 years ago

You can't reuse the login to difference instances, but you can interact with different instances, like how I am commenting from beehaw.org instance.

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flatau 2 points 3 years ago

Sweet, thanks! Also, my first comment in this fediverse thing, here we go!

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Purrington 3 points 3 years ago

Welcome to fediverse!

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Molecule9933 1 point 3 years ago

How does that work exactly? I am registered here, but want to subscribe to communities over on feddit.de It only gives me an error message on the bottom left that I'm not logged in when hitting "subscribe".

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Purrington 2 points 3 years ago

You need to go to Communities tab, and from there subscribe to those communities. When those appear in your feed, you can comment.

You can't directly go to those instance and comment.

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DestinationHades 4 points 3 years ago

Can someone help me with uploading avatar? Every time it shows me an error

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Blaze_232 4 points 3 years ago

Found several community links in some chats. But clicking on them, opens the link in browser with an error. Is there some way to directly open the links in the Jerboa app?

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dleewee 1 point 3 years ago

Enable app links in Android app settings. Then links will open directly in Jebora.

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tallwookie 1 point 3 years ago

presumably you can do this in the app, I have not tried as the process is cumbersome and much easier on pc.

you basically have to find the !community@domain string, then copy it and paste it back into your home instance search field & search for it, then navigate to it from your home instance to subscribe to it. i kind of got into a groove with it earlier and subbed to at least once community on each of these --> https://join-lemmy.org/instances

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TGhost 1 point 3 years ago

I'm using an web browser even on mobile bc of that. There is no doubt with time this will be implemented

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DarkTides 4 points 3 years ago

I'm wishing there was some type of bot that would search out new communities on other instances that were formed and would go through the process of searching and joining so it shows up for users when they go to all.

Not because the process is too cumbersome, but because I've found that older posts and comments that happened before anyone joined don't end up showing up which is a shame.

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Beans 4 points 3 years ago

Anyone know how I can get something similar to 'infinite scroll' with RES? ie it only updates when I scroll to the bottom.

I find myself looking at the front page and then losing my place as a spam of updates coming in.

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zinklog 3 points 3 years ago

It's an issue that will be fixed in the next update (which is gonna be released pretty soon)

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Beans 3 points 3 years ago

That was fast, thanks! I like the little notification I got for this :)

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Adverse 4 points 3 years ago

Hi I have made an account for FMHY, do I need to make another account for another instance? For EG : I have joined FMHY now, so can I join feddit.uk with this same account?

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zinklog 11 points 3 years ago

You cannot login to that instance with these credentials no, but you can access all the communities on that instance and engage with them through fmhy instance itself.

So there is no need to make a new account for every instance.

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pirate 2 points 3 years ago

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tumulus_scrolls 3 points 3 years ago

So are some methods of accessing communities from the federation working for people now? (ones from from Michael Altfield's guide) Earlier today I found that only manually going to lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/@ works, and now it does "404: couldnt_find_community" for a while.

Also subscribing results in "Subscribe Pending" which doesn't seem to go away. Something that will resolve itself hopefully, but reporting in case others experience the same.

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zinklog 8 points 3 years ago

Sorry, that was our fault, we were unable to federate with instances for a few hours. Everything should work as intended now.

Sorry for the mistake

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tumulus_scrolls 4 points 3 years ago

No problem man, we know you're working hard through this chaos

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thrawn21 3 points 3 years ago

So I'm having an issue with accessing the thegarden.land, when I view it directly I see comments on posts, but when I access it at !gardening@thegarden.land through FMHY, I see the same posts but with no comments. Here are images showing my issue.

I attempted to login to thegarden.land with my username and password for FMHY, but I just get an indefinite spinner and no response. Is this an issue with lemmy, or something I'm doing wrong?

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tallwookie 4 points 3 years ago

search for it like so from your home instance (fmhy), while you are logged in on your home instance - you wont be able to log into thegarden.land unless you have an account there.

my main instance is lemmy.world - subbed here earler today using that same process ;)

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NataliePortland 1 point 3 years ago

Hi there I just came across your comment. The issue could be with your language settings, you need to select English AND Undetermined.

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sunaurus 2 points 3 years ago

Hey, we have an FAQ at lemm.ee that could be added to your list!

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zinklog 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks, it looks great. I'll add it to the list.

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stown 2 points 3 years ago

Anyone have an updated guide for installing lemmy with docker? I've followed the instructions on join-lemmy docs but it fails and I'm too stupid to figure out why.

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Guitarded 2 points 3 years ago

I set type to "all" in my settings, but the default is still "local." Anyone know what's up with that?

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zinklog 4 points 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's a bug. If you select "All", lemmy will show "local" at the top but will fetch "All" content anyway, You'll need to then select all and then local back again if you want to see local content again.

Kinda frustrating but should be an easy fix for devs.

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midtermmassacre 1 point 3 years ago

This is gonna make for some good reading this weekend! Thank you for putting this together!

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Martineski 1 point 3 years ago

Can we add https://lemmyverse.net/communities to the list to spread the word about the tool?

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zinklog 2 points 3 years ago

I've been thinking of collecting index/list type sites for lemmy and unsure whether to append them here or make a seperate post for them

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Martineski 1 point 3 years ago

Make a separate post to make it more visible because people will most probably miss it otherwise

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