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Lemmy.world Support

Welcome to the official Lemmy.world Support community! Post your issues or questions about Lemmy.world here.

This community is for issues related to the Lemmy World instance only. For Lemmy software requests or bug reports, please go to the Lemmy github page.

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I'm still a Lemmy noob myself but I wanted to give a few tips/hints to make using Lemmy/kbin/fediverse easier.

Note; I'm putting this together quickly and there may already be other, better guides and help pages, so please link them in the comments if you know of them!

1. You don't need multiple accounts on different Lemmy instances

(instances are servers, they are different Lemmy websites. lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are 2 different Lemmy instances)! Federation means the servers talk to each other and show your messages to people on other instances.

2. Remember, This is all BRAND NEW!

We have teams of developers working on it constantly, fixing any bugs and making it easier to use. Stick around and you'll notice things start getting so much easier to do. Patience is the greatest virtue you can have here!

3. USE AN APP!

The Lemmy web interface isn't great, and it's more confusing than intuitive. Installing Connect for Reddit yesterday improved my Lemmy experience twice as much instantly

Popular apps:

Mlem - A Lemmy client for iOS

Connect for Lemmy (Android) - opens in App Store

Liftoff - A Lemmy for Windows , Linux and Android

Jerboa - A native Android app made by Lemmy's developers (Jerboa IMPORTANT NOTICE: Jerboa was crashing on some instances (instances are like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml) because of an upgrade issue. If it crashes for you, try something else for a couple days until it's fixed)

Lemoa - A Gtk client for Lemmy on Linux

4. Find your communities!

Took me a while to find this community. Thankfully there are Lemmy Community Browsers that let you search for communities across instances! There are 4-5 more browsers, including ones that say whether an entire subreddit had migrated here, so please feel free to post them in the comments!


I was going to post a lot more but I'm short on time and need to run and some of my post was deleted. If you have any more to add, please do so in the comments and I'll edit this post!

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[โ€“] dukethorion@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I'd argue point #1.

I think it is better to have two accounts, with the same subscriptions, on two vastly different instances. At least for now.
There are going to be a lot of growing pains with upgrades/updates, and things breaking. As it stands right now, if "lemmy.world" goes down, half the lemmy-verse is inaccessible.

If I have another account on say "lemmy.one", I can still connect to all the other instances (except for .world of course).

New people are going to gravitate to the largest instance because human nature suggests people want to belong to large groups. That is the intent of your point #1, to spread the load. I would clarify the objective to explain why people shouldn't have their only account on the largest instance.

Example using US states: I'm on the Pennsylvania instance. I can see what's going on in the other 49 instances, as well as the Washington DC instance (through federation). I should still have a representative in DC just in case.