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.

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.

  • Beans@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year 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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    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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      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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        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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          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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    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 [email protected] 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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      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 ;)

    • NataliePortland@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

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

  • stown@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year 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.

  • Blaze_232@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year 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?

    • tallwookie@lemmy.world
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      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

    • zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPM
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      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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    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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    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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    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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      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.