What is bookwormstory.social
bookwormstory.social is a server that hosts Lemmy software that mimics behavior of reddit. It enables community to host Our own place for discussion about Ascendance of a Bookworm. But it is more than that, it also has protocol called ActivityPub that connect different servers and their communities. It provides ability to send messages, replays and posts between servers.
Technical Jargon
Instances - Servers hosted by individuals or groups
Communities - Subreddits or places where similar content gets posted
Fediverse - all the projects using ActivityPub protocol
What if I wanted to see other Communities or Instances?
If you wanted for example see other communities I would suggest going to lemmyverse.net/communities and searching for you community. For example we will search for Hermitcraft a minecraft SMP server.
Then we will copy a link and put it into a search bar. To access it press magnifying glass in the top right corner. After we will press the search won't be instantaneous so we need to wait 3-10 seconds. Worth noting that results will be populated by comments mentioning that community.
After that we should see an icon with the name of community and subscriber count from our instance. When we click that it will direct us to the community page. On the right side or hidden under the "sidebar" button there will be "Subscribe" button that will enable Us to see new posts.
Now we can comment, upvote and post in community that isn't hosted on bookwormstory.social. After subscribing our instance will receive updates from subscribed communities and will display posts under subscribed tab on the front page.
Hey there's a bug!
Due to software being in practically alpha state there is a lot of bugs so please report them to @Neshura@bookwormstory.social or to @ludrol@bookwormstory.social
What if I have more questions?
You can ask them in the comments or in FAQ post
