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Welcome to Lemmy.World General!
This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.
🪆 About Lemmy World
🧭 Finding Communities
Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!
Also keep an eye on:
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- !new_communities@mander.xyz
- !communityspotlight@lemmy.world
- !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca!
For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!
💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
- !movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
- !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!
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Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.
0. See: Rules for Users.
- No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
- Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
- Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
- No Ads/Spamming.
- No NSFW content.
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I'm still not sure I understand how communities and instances work.
If I create an instance here will it show in other instances? Because I did create one on Lemmy world and I can't see it in the other instance I am at with my other account, even though I look at "all"
When you create a new community, other instances don't automatically know it exists yet. They find out when the first person from there, searches for your community (search syntax is given in the community sidebar:
!community@instance<-- note the ! at the start). Once someone subscribes, it shows up in that instance's All feed.To get the word out to other instances you can post in the various relevant communities as well as make sure to drop the link into any relevant conversations where people might be interested in checking it out. Since you have at least two accounts, if you create a community on one of your instances you can also use your other account as a shortcut and search for it yourself on the other instance.
Some useful communities are:
I see what you did there... 😏 Good advice though!
Lemmyworld is an instance. The other one with the other account is also an instance. You do not create an instance on an instance.
You create a new instance by setting up a new web server and having it run lemmy for users to sign on to.
Content propagation’s another issue.
Sorry. I meant that I created a community in one instance and can't see it in an other
Someone from that other instance needs to look for your community for it to show up on that instance.
Very rough explanation:
An instance is just a single distinct computer (server) running the Lemmy software. You have a bunch of these separate computers running the Lemmy software. These computers - together - form the Lemmyverse. (I'm purposely leaving out Fediverse, activitypub).
Each user (no matter what computer/instance they signed up with) has the ability to comment on any post made within this system of cooperating computers (The Lemmyverse). We can also subscribed to each other's communities (ie; forums, subreddits).
That's basically it. The ability to share posts and to comment on each other's posts. You can't use your login details across Lemmyverse since each computer is distinct.
Some of these distinct computers may decide they don't want to be part of this Federation of cooperating computers. For the most part they can disengage from this Lemmyverse. For the most part... but the software is still on version (about) 0.18.2 and so complete (or temporary) disengagement from Lemmyverse is still in development (ie; coding, logic decisions, etc).
Excellent! It's like old days php forums but you have feeds from other forums too.
It's a bit scary though that you can have whole lot of content and a whole community but it's all up to the single instance host if they want to drop it from one day to another.