Getting Started on Lemmy
Getting Started on Lemmy
I've been working on a guide to getting started on Lemmy. What do you think I should add?
Thanks for this post!
I created this one a while back with the intention of creating a guide, but I never got around to it.
What are the best enhancement tools for Lemmy?
These were my three:
Violentmonkey + Lemmy Universal Link Switcher
Best way to avoid accidentally leaving your home instance.
Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Best way to search for communities across the entire platform.
A RES-like userscript to easily navigate Lemmy with your keyboard.
Thank you for sharing here!
Yes, thank you for sharing! I think it looks good and should be useful to new users. I've bookmarked it.
As for adding anything, this may be too advanced and could detract from what you have written for beginners, but might work as a second article: tips for linking across instances. For example:
- To link to a community so that it opens the reader's local copy on their own instance, use the !communityname@instancename.tld format.
- To find your local instance's copy of a linked comment or post in order to interact with it (comment, upvote, downvote, report, etc), search the linked URL string in your own instance's search to find it.
Good ideas for something like a "10 tips" video or something to help people up their game.
I don't like the email analogy, because people don't think about email like that, they are not really familiar with how email works. I like to summarize that differently: they only have to register on one instance and they can see every post in every other instances from that account, that's all. I read from people who thought they have to register on each instances separately, or they can login on a different instance with the same credentials. (Like you can login in the outlook app with your gmail and yahoo account, see the email analogy doesn't even true)
Don't recommend lemmy.ml to newcomers. Some instances already defederate from them, and they don't defederate lemmygrad and hexbear. Just pick any other general instance instead, lemmy.zip, sopuli, lemmy.ca etc is much better experience for new users.
This post also has some really good points for a general tips writeup like this: https://lemmy.zip/post/31641809
they can login on a different instance with the same credentials.
Hey that's me. for a long time I thought I could do that, and when I found out I couldn't, I thought that meant I have to register to instances I want to interact with.
I think the biggest hurdle to overcome with threadiverse / forumverse is staying in your instance view/reader to continue interacting. There are Apps and front ends that help with that, but on web browsers but that's yet another layer of quirks added onto new users to wrap their mind around
(Like you can login in the outlook app with your gmail and yahoo account, see the email analogy doesn’t even true)
Outlook is an interface for email, so it kinda does hold true in that Outlook is an analog to using a lemmy mobile app, which allows you to log into any instance (not with the same credentials, though).
recommending ML without mentioning that many instances have very specific rules that must be followed will lead to a bad experience