Guide: Switching to Lemmy
This post will store guides for users who are new to Lemmy! (There’s no wiki pages yet.)
This is a work in progress: please questions or make suggestions below, and I’ll use them to improve the guide over time.
Why use monyet.cc?
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It’s a lot like reddit: Your monyet.cc account gives you access to every other Lemmy community (aka subreddit) across every instance (aka server). There are already over a million posts across the Lemmyverse! Check out !gaming !maliciouscompliance, or !memes.
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But created by our community and 100% ad-free: This project is a labor of love, and we don’t have to answer to investors. Lemmy is very cheap to host. We believe that love is more sustainable than a company trying to turn communities into dollars!
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We’re building lots of new Malaysian communities: monyet.cc lets us offer an entire “reddit” just for Malaysia. Because you can now curate your subscriptions, we can host all kinds of communities that we couldn’t before!
- Your feed can be 24/7 memes, all politics, no politics, news or no news, in Chinese, Tamil, or Jawi, nothing but https://monyet.cc/c/malaysian_dating or cat pics… whatever works best for you!
- Just subscribe to the communities you like, or block the ones you don’t
- It’s still early days, so if you don’t see a community you’re looking for, do consider creating it!
Getting started
- Creating an account: It’s super easy – no email account needed! Just click Sign Up.
- Which app to use: We recommend Memmy if you’re on iOS, and Jerboa if you’re on Android. There are lots of other choices too!
Improving your experience
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Local vs All: Lemmy has two main views. Click Local to explore all the Malaysian stuff, and All to explore the Lemmyverse!
https://monyet.cc/pictrs/image/e3c7e5ab-bc54-4dfb-aabf-45503a5763d0.png
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Discovering new communities: Lemmy has lots of active communities (subreddits) on other instances (servers). Many act just like default reddit subs! See below for a guide on how to subscribe to them.
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Dark mode: Username - Settings - Themes - darkly
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Minor differences vs Reddit
- Upvotes are tied to your username: Like Twitter, on Lemmy people can see who is upvoting and downvoting posts and comments. (If that feels weird to you, you can use a throwaway!)
FAQ
- Can I create a bunch of communities and just start posting random stuff? Yes please, we’d love that!!
- Do we have the CPU / bandwidth for X?: Yes! Lemmy is super lightweight. Please act as if we have infinite bandwidth and CPU.
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