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Community for the Feddit UK instance.
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While doing bits of setup over the last day, I've had to search to work out a couple of things. I thought this might be a good place for people to post up other tips and gotchas.

Avatars and Icons: Currently, non-square images are squished to fit in spaces. Cropping or blankspacing can improve the way things display.

Adding mods: To add an additional mod to a community, currently they need to comment on a thread in that community. From there, an existing mod can click the 3 dots menu next to their comment, and add them as a moderator.

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[–] TedWard@toot.wales 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@GreatAlbatross
Here are the "tips" I have learnt for using #Lemmy with #mastodon

Follow communities and people by copying the url into the mastodon search. You follow them a bit like you would a hashtag and then all posts from that community will show in your feed.

Reply to posts or comments you copy the url of a post or comments into the search on mastodon.

Post to a community by @ it in for example it would be @ "feddituk@feddit.uk" or @ "unitedkingdom@feddit.uk".

[–] wndlb@mas.to 1 points 1 year ago

@TedWard @GreatAlbatross I like 'pirating' the follows of someone you know/like/find persuasive

[–] juniper 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been trying to post a picture and every time I preview it, the picture within the post is turning sideways. No matter how many times I try rotating it, saving it and re-uploading it to the post, it's still sideways. What am I doing wrong?

[–] GreatAlbatross 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the picture has (or hasn't) got rotational metadata built in? It's possible Lemmy doesn't handle rotational properly. Post it in this thread if you like.

[–] juniper 1 points 1 year ago

I managed to figure it out, sort of. I uploaded the image into the 'URL' bar rather than trying to attach it within the body of the post. That seemed to give the correct orientation.

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