I've seen lots of discussion on reddit of users trying to get others to join Lemmy and the prevailing reply is that it is too difficult to navigate and comprehend. Having to answer multiple questions and wait for manual verification is combersome and is limiting growth at a time when nothing should be standing in Lemmy's way....
yes please. This is lemmy's time to shine. If the servers can handle the load and people don't understand the Fediverse just yet, i say let people be directed towards one good location.
As far as i can tell, after people join and learn the basic interface they start asking questions about the broader capabilities of the fediverse on their own.
I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?...
sorry for hijacking but i've always wondered: if the original instance goes away, does that mean search engines like google would have to reindex the content under a different url so it shows in the rankings again?
hm. Seems you're right. The original score doesn't get updated if you downvote. Only the score on your own instance. Why even show the button on this one comment if it's inconsistent like that?
Hey guys, just joined Lemmy and noticed that there isn't any searching tool like on reddit. I was scrolling yesterday and saw a cool post but didn't have time to save it and I tried searching and realized that there was no searching feature, at least not in Jerboa on Android. Anybody come up with a solution for this or maybe...
I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it's obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I'm looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!
I've been using lemmy for a little while now. I feel like one of the strongest attractions I still have to reddit is the ability to find posts via a search engine. Typically I can type in whatever question I have and add "reddit" and get a far better answer than whatever google will give. I understand that lemmy doesn't have...
i see. although, the content i was referring to werent just my own comments. i meant everything the server holds: the posts and comments on all their communities
the reason why i brought this up were concerns about preservation. often people on reddit have fantastic posts and comments with useful info which can then be rediscovered via search engines years later. on the fediverse on one hand you have more freedom from rogue admins but on the other hand it does carry more risk of the host just disappearing
Isn't that what Graze does for Mastodon? Allows you to interact with remote accounts and posts without logging in each time. I imagine Lemmy would need something similar
Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
If you mean lemmy as the name of the website then yes. All these instances(or servers) create the whole network which lemmy is trying to build. For example you signed up with lemmy.ml, an instance that was created and run by the lemmy devs. This instance has communities(like subreddits) where people can post things. You can sub to these communities and they'll appear in your feed. But other instances like beehaw also have their own communities where people can post, and you can subscribe to those communities too(using your acc here on lemmy.ml, without signing up on beehaw)
lemmy and beehaw have their own list of members and their own admins with their own rules of whats acceptable and not.
When you become more comfortable you'll realize lemmy can also interact with other fediverse software( or websites) like mastodon but for now this is more than enough.
My only hope and worry is that the devs and admins are aware and prepared for the big wave of new users. Especially this instance and those featured as recommended in joinlemmy. Mastodon also went through the same thing but for some reason I think they had some more time to mature before that.
Ive already been experiencing some stability issues and this volume is nothing compared to what could possibly be coming as early as next month.
For now your best bet is to do the community search in the section at the top of the web ui. for example, choose "All" in the filter and search for "gaming" and it will find all gaming communities on all the intances.
The sub you're on right now also displays on the right hand side of the post, you can also press subscribe there.
We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines....
yep. Topics, tags or whatever else that groups up related communities would be useful. For now this isnt supported but i'd also say while lemmy is still small, subbing to all subs that interest you here and on beehaw should be enough not to miss much imo.
Well if you have a mastodon account, which works far more like a twitter feed, you can also subscribe to a lemmy community on any instance and you'll get all posts and comments from that sub as a mastodon post in your timeline. it's a bit not very useful i'd say in its current implementation but hey, pretty cool.
you can also post to any kbin community and interact with the comments but that's far closer to the reddit model so a bit less alien.
The time to streamline Lemmy onboaring is now. Let's do it like mastodon did. (blog.joinmastodon.org)
I've seen lots of discussion on reddit of users trying to get others to join Lemmy and the prevailing reply is that it is too difficult to navigate and comprehend. Having to answer multiple questions and wait for manual verification is combersome and is limiting growth at a time when nothing should be standing in Lemmy's way....
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I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?...
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Hey guys, just joined Lemmy and noticed that there isn't any searching tool like on reddit. I was scrolling yesterday and saw a cool post but didn't have time to save it and I tried searching and realized that there was no searching feature, at least not in Jerboa on Android. Anybody come up with a solution for this or maybe...
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I've been using lemmy for a little while now. I feel like one of the strongest attractions I still have to reddit is the ability to find posts via a search engine. Typically I can type in whatever question I have and add "reddit" and get a far better answer than whatever google will give. I understand that lemmy doesn't have...
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Unless i'm blind i can't find it anywhere for lemmy.ml. On Mastodon this is listed on the instances about page. Thanks.
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Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
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We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines....