Just joined after rif went down. Are there any good videos or tutorials for people new to Lemmy and the fediverse?

  • echo_bravo
    8·
    1 year ago

    It’s pretty simple.

    1. Lemmy is a collection of topic-based communities.
    2. People share what they find interesting to the appropriate community.
    3. People who subscribe to the community vote up posts that are on topic and vote down posts that aren’t. They can also leave a comment to discuss the submission.
    4. Posts are sorted by votes/comments so that people see popular ones.

    Have fun and participate as much or as little as you want.

    • alteredEnvoy@feddit.ch
      2·
      1 year ago

      Something to add: Different lemmy communities might be hosted on different servers, like email servers. You can talk to people from different servers pretty much seamlessly

      • echo_bravo
        1·
        1 year ago

        Another thing I forgot was the three timelines you can see:

        • Subscribed: those are the communities you are following
        • Federated: These are all the posts that a server received from its users and everything from the fediverse
        • Local: These are all the posts from you local instance only.

        Note that apps might call these a little different but you should get the idea.

    • sini@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      Not to be too negative, but as a new user myself I don’t think this is helpful. These points you’ve given apply for basically any forum, it would be better if it was explained how accounts or communities work.

      • ronnypopiel@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        But that is basically it from the users standpoint. Under the hood it’s as if all of these separate forums can talk to each other and if you post on one forum it gets copied to all of the other ones.

        So if you want or subscribe to something, just go to the subscribe tab and you will see all of the lemmy compatible sites even if it’s not the site you originally signed up at.

  • TomJoad@lemmy.tf
    2·
    1 year ago

    These TWO things will vastly improve your experience…

    1 - Subscribe to high-quality communities…

    The best way to explore communities is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    • click the “house” icon (top-right), and input your home instance (aussie.zone).

    • now explore ALL those searchable communities, and open them to Subscribe.

    2 - Get a good mobile app. It solves all the federation/UI issues.

    • are you on iOS or Android? (or primarily PC?)
    • I will send you more info accordingly