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I straight up don't know how to use Lemmy. I feel like I need to relearn how to ride a bike.
I've been here for a bit more than a week now and my biggest advice and is to take it as it is. Take a deep breath, accept that this is Lemmy and not something else, and that you're feeling it out. This is not relearning a bike, this is getting in a peddle boat for the first time. Similar, yes, but also it's own thing.
Set feed to All. Scroll. See interesting topic you want to see more, subscribe to community. Interested in specific topic? Search for community in communities page. Once you gather enough subscriptions, set feed to subscribed. Scroll.
Thanks
In communities page also set to All so you can see everything, not just your local ones.
Yeah it's different, you'll burn in pretty quick though, just have to get used stuff being spread across a bunch of instances. It feels pretty natural after using it a while. The designers try to make it easy. It's kind of like email where each community has two parts to its name.
ok, so i have been here for like a whole hour now so i'm a pro! Jk I still don't get a lot of it but I did find this cool map that shows you large communities! https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
Also check out lemmyverse.net
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Large communities are the backbone of any sort of social media. Let's hope it survives!
Basically think of discord servers that host subreddits. Instead of r/, the new r/ includes the domain name, kinda like a discord server. The new r/ is !subredditName@ServerName
So if you wanted to search for say, r/furry, you'd type !furry@pawb.social.
Furry is the subreddit, pawb.social is where it is hosted. Over time lemmy will improve and servers will coalesce subreddits like planets around newly formed stars.
Yeah, used reddit through Rif for ages. The lemmy connect app thing is just familiar enough for all the unfamiliar bits to stick out. Looking forward to learning though.
This video really helped me
https://youtu.be/K8fBSrhHrE8
Also this search page which is mentioned in the above video
https://browse.feddit.de/
I am in the same boat. Took me about two days to find a group to sign up with. I guess things have been getting busy here with all of us refugees.