'Beginner's Guide to Lemmy' Collection (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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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.

Unsunny's Guide - An easy to read guide aimed at redditors migrating to Lemmy or Kbin
Lemmy.world Starting Guide - A beginner's guide to Lemmy by the admin of lemmy.world instance.
db0's New User Guide - A guide for new users on Lemmy made by head mod of r/piracy.
lemm.ee FAQ - Beginner's Guide by admin of lemm.ee
Michael Altfield's Guide - A guide on finding Lemmy Communities (Lemmy version of Subreddits)
Fedi.tips - A comprehensive guide for Fediverse and Mastodon. Useful for Lemmy aswell.
r/KbinMigration's Guide - Redditor's guide to how Kbin works.
Join the Fediverse - Fediverse Wiki

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.

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[-] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Beans@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 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.

[-] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's an issue that will be fixed in the next update (which is gonna be released pretty soon)

[-] Beans@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That was fast, thanks! I like the little notification I got for this :)

[-] DestinationHades@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Can someone help me with uploading avatar? Every time it shows me an error

[-] stown@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 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.

[-] midtermmassacre@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is gonna make for some good reading this weekend! Thank you for putting this together!

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for linking my guide mate!

[-] MacDougal@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Brand newb here. Do i have to join all of them with different logins or?

[-] Purrington@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

No, but you can interact with different instances, like how I am commenting from beehaw.org instance.

[-] Overkill8813@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I definitely need answers for this, too.

[-] Purrington@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

You can't reuse the login to difference instances, but you can interact with different instances, like how I am commenting from beehaw.org instance.

[-] Molecule9933@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

How does that work exactly? I am registered here, but want to subscribe to communities over on feddit.de It only gives me an error message on the bottom left that I'm not logged in when hitting "subscribe".

[-] Purrington@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

You need to go to Communities tab, and from there subscribe to those communities. When those appear in your feed, you can comment.

You can't directly go to those instance and comment.

[-] Undefined0968@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is there some script to automate finding any of the 100's of subreddits, YouTube channels etc, we're subscribed to, To migrate?

[-] Blaze_232@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 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?

[-] thrawn21@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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 !gardening@thegarden.land 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?

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 points 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.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Can we add https://lemmyverse.net/communities to the list to spread the word about the tool?

[-] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Make a separate post to make it more visible because people will most probably miss it otherwise

[-] tumulus_scrolls@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

So are some methods of accessing communities from the federation working for people now? (ones from from Michael Altfield's guide) Earlier today I found that only manually going to lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/@ works, and now it does "404: couldnt_find_community" for a while.

Also subscribing results in "Subscribe Pending" which doesn't seem to go away. Something that will resolve itself hopefully, but reporting in case others experience the same.

[-] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, that was our fault, we were unable to federate with instances for a few hours. Everything should work as intended now.

Sorry for the mistake

[-] tumulus_scrolls@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No problem man, we know you're working hard through this chaos

[-] Azceptit@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah…. finding subs is hard here. Needs to be simplified.

[-] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Once a community is searched by someone, they should be in the communities > All section. But yeah finding brand new communities is hard.

[-] Guitarded@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I set type to "all" in my settings, but the default is still "local." Anyone know what's up with that?

[-] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.