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! ;)
I'm having trouble creating a community and I don't know why. Trying to create a new community on lemmy.world but when I attempt to submit the community information, the button spins for a second and just stops without anything changing. No error messages (i fixed the errors the site showed)
Tried making a new community on Connect for Lemmy, but there's no option to create communities.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Hello there! Sorry I missed your comment. Would you still like help, or did you solve your issue?
Actually, I could use more help. I'm trying to create a new community, but lemmy.world's submit button spins for a second, then nothing. Someone suggested doing it on a different instance because lemmy.world is crazy busy right now. Do I need to create a different login to use different instances?
Can you try again on browser after clearing your browser cache?
To create it on a different instance, you'd need to have a seperate account on that instance
Still not working. I tried making it on lemm.ee too (after creating username) and it did the same. I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing wrong. I didn't set a photo, banner or sidebar description right now since I'm tired of retyping everything, and I left the language as "undetermined"