I unironically like the default web UI. It’s like a modernized old reddit. Also installed the PWA. I’d try wefwef, but its’ instance selector doesn’t even have the instance whose meta community we’re currently discussing it in :(
I’m just glad I found a server that allowed me to register. Been trying for weeks. Lemmy.ml is closed for registration. Lemmy.world just spins when you hit the register button. Another instance just said my registration was pending.
i don’t know about ios but some client allow you to copy image url, just copy image url and paste in browser long press on image and click save/download. If client not provide image url then copy post url and open it in browser then follow same steps from long press on image
I’m on wefwef on Android and I can just hold down on the image and the context menu has both download and copy. I don’t have an iPhone to test if it’s the same though
I just joined today and could use some assistance finding communities that I’d fit into. I’m into Cybersecurity and all matters of computing. If anyone has a suggestion please reply and thanks for having me :)
lemmyverse.net/communitiesThis is a good start in search for communities. You can enter your home instance(in your case lemmy.ca) by clicking on the house symbol at the top right and then search for communities like “security”.
When you click on one, it’ll automatically lead you to the adress based on your home instance and you can immediately subscribe to them form there. lemmy.ca/c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works could be of interest for example
We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!
We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!
Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I’m learning just as much as you! I learn if there’s a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!
I ended up making !onepiece to fill my GOAT manga needs
“Migrants” is fine. “Refugees” makes light of people in our community who are actually suffering the extreme hardship of being forced from their home with nothing.
If you cave everytime someone gets offended, you won’t be able to write anything. Ignore people like that that are purposefully misconstruing your intentions just to make themselves feel better about their boring lives.
Jesus fucking Christ chill out. Shit like this will just turn people away. Get off your high horse and understand that nobody is making light of anyone’s situation by using that term. So annoying.
It was weird using Reddit Is Fun like I always do then it just suddenly stopped.
I can’t create a community. I click the button and nothing happens. Any idea why? I’m trying to recreate a community from Reddit that really helped me when I was in a dark place.
Hey, I would like to debug this community creation issue, but I haven’t been able to reproduce this. Can you walk me through the exact steps that you’re taking? What text are you inputting into the creation form?
Hey, sorry for the slow response, I’ve been getting a lot of messages and working through them steadily.
Name and display name are both “exJW”
I suspect this is your issue - the actual name of a community must be lowercase. In my browser, it does tell me that the name is in a wrong format when I enter “exJW”, but it’s not super clear what the correct format is. I believe this error error message will need to be improved.
Anyway, I have created the community myself: lemm.ee/c/exjw. Please make a post in here and tag my name, I can then pass ownership of the community to you. At that point, you’ll be able to set it up however you like!
And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.
It’s the walmart-ification of social media. They’re self sustaining because of their size, but that’s not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.
It’s like buying from a supermarket and getting pretty much everything in one stop (most of it being mediocre) VS getting local, yummy, Bio, more expensive products from 5 local small shops.
I think I’ve figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can’t assume that’s happening for everyone.
It’s pretty strange coming from Reddit. Each instance has its own communities but you can access all of them from the instance you signed up in? Like the equivalent of subreddits within subreddits. Or maybe I’m just unused to it.
I’ve been trying to think of a good metaphor, but I haven’t landed on one yet. The best thing I’ve thought of is the old saying:
Whereever you are, you’re here.
Federation (for lemmy) is the concept of the different instances sharing sublemmys, posts, and comments with each other. So you can be on any instance and interact or subscribe with things from another.
The strong caveat is: some instances turn off federation with others. For example, Beehaw has stronger moderation, and they had problems with users and spam from a specific other instance (lemmy.world was one, I think). So in that case, Beehaw turned off federation with lemmy.world. That means that if you were logged in to Beehaw, you would not see any new content from lemmy.world until they turned federation back on.
edit: I thought of one more thing. For communities that are run by their developers, like Minecraft, Lemmy is a great solution. They could host their own Lemmy instance (lemmy.minecraft) and lock down so that only their sublemmy - /c/Minecraft - is created. But when they federate, they get all the other content from other Lemmy instances.
As a user, you could sign up with lemmy.minecraft or lemm.ee, etc., and still see everything you want and sub to the /c/Minecraft.
As mods/admins, they only need to focus on their Minecraft thing. And they have complete control over that, because they can literally shut down the entire instance.
Lemmy only counts activity as commenting or posting. Unlike Reddit which counted any eyeball on a post as active. However, this is a traffic graph from the server, not from Lemmy itself.
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