cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853004
Hello there, and welcome to the Fediverse! Let's get you started.
This post was created together with many users, intended to help you have an easy start! It has a simple language, and it includes many useful links.
For your first day here
Hello, newbie user! Lemmy is just like Reddit, but better. Ha-ha. Seriously. But let's not overwhelm you for now.
This very neat starting guide was written by our beloved admin, @ruud. To avoid confusion, start reading it from the Quick start guide section.
If you're new to Lemmy, this post will also help you perfectly.
kbin users can check out this amazing starting guide instead. This is also a nice guide.
Finding Communities on Lemmy/kBin
If you finished reading your starting guide, it's time to go find your new favorite communities! Check out these dedicated services:
number1, 2, 3, and 4, and 5! Go have some fun! :DFor your second day here
Hello again! You're less of a newbie now, and you found some amazing communities! We can start talking about the Fediverse. I hope you didn't forget to read the rules for lemmy.world!
kBin.social's rules are in this link.
The Fediverse
You must've realised that we addressed Lemmy and kBin users differently. And what is this Fediverse people keep talking about, anyways?
Lemmy and kBin are two different platforms, and they can perfectly interact with each other! This means that they are a part of the federation. And they are only two members of the vast Fediverse.
What is the Fediverse? video by Framasoft to get a good understanding with visuals!
As a great lemming once said: Fediverse is basically like a group chat, but for websites. This means that federated websites all agree to share their content with each other, constantly, at the same time.
Follow this link to view a list of all Lemmy instances.
Follow this link to open the Fediverse Observer. It is set to show kBin, but you can navigate your way through the site to show any Fediverse platform you'd like.
For your third day here
That's it! What else do you want? Go have some fun and keep learning along the way! ;)
A question I'm not seeing asked is about the communities.
I see in plenty of explanations that I can "interact" with communities on different instances. Which is great! But for the life of me I can't figure out how to subscribe to a community on a different instance (I'm on lemmy.world and want to subscribe to a community on lemmy.ml). It was mentioned in another comment that you only need one account on the fediverse, but when I view a community from a different instance it asks me to sign up or sign in.
Am I unable to subscribe to a community on a different instance? Is it a flaw in the app I'm using (Connect for Android)? Am I supposed to log in to my account, but just select a different instance? There's lots of communities not hosted on lemmy.world that I was a big part of on Reddit.
Hello there! Let's walk over this together. What's the name of the community you're trying to subscribe to?
Oh, let's go with something easy, like lifeprotips. Or Androidapps since it's at the top.
I was using this list as a reference guide. Might be my fault not understanding the app yet either
Nice! Let's go to the communities tab, and in the search section, put: !lifeprotips@lemmy.ml
It can take a few seconds to load, but it should eventually show you the community. Notice how similar to an e-mail address this format is.
Hmm. It didn't work on connect so I installed jerboa real quick in case it was the app. Still nothing pops up :/
Hm, can you try it on the browser? Apps might not be fully supporting it.
So searching by the address you provided didn't seem to work on either Connect for Android or Jerboa, but the search function in Jerboa seems to be able to find it just fine! It tells me "Pending" after I press subscribe, but progress is progress haha. And I'm assuming the federation aspect means it might just take a minute for the back end workings to recognize my request.
The more you know! Thank you so much for the quick response and everything you're doing to help get this new wave on its feet