I really want to like Lemmy
I really want to like Lemmy
I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.
Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.
It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha
What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know
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I'm confused to be honest, but I admit I just started. But like, where do I look at pictures of houseplants and post mine? Do I find a server devoted to houseplants? Or maybe I should just finally figure out Instagram for that.
You don't have to find an instance for X, just a community. Go to the communities tab and search for 'plants' and see what comes uob. It'll show the communities in your instance and then in other instances. Click onntnem subscribe its all connected.
Then on your Frontpage there is a tab on top between Subscribed, Local, All.
Subscribed shows posts from everything you subscribed only. Local is posts from your instance only All is posts from all instances federated.
There's a houseplants sub on mander.xyz. I'll see if I can figure out how to link it...
[email protected] ... Nope...
https://mander.xyz/c/houseplants ... Jumps to the browser at least in Jerboa.
No idea if there is an equivalent of typing r/subreddit...
Here's a link: /c/[email protected]
Linking is a bit clunky and a lot of people post direct links to a community with its home instance URL, which causes problems when you're browsing around. That's an issue I hope improves over time as the software matures.
Edit: I don’t know if that link will work in apps. I’m using the TestFlight of Mlem on iOS and it just crashes the app 😂. But in the browser it’ll take you to the community in your home instance instead of the community’s home instance.
Oohhh, so that is how you do the links!!
Testing: /c/[email protected]
EDIT: Seems to work! Hopefully Lemmy will make it so things of the format /c/[email protected] are automatically linked without having to mess with markdown.
Edit: replies with the wrong account. See edit above.
Note to self: be careful signing into accounts on multiple instances!
There's the Nature and Gardening community on Beehaw.org, you might want to check that out.