I know people are confused about how fediverse works and how to use it. This is an attempt to compile a list of beginner's guides made by some amazing people on this topic.
Unsunny's Guide - An easy to read guide aimed at redditors migrating to Lemmy or Kbin
I will update this list if any new guide is made so you can save this post for later. Also, if anyone has any good guide to add post it in the comments and I'll add it here.
Hi I have made an account for FMHY, do I need to make another account for another instance?
For EG : I have joined FMHY now, so can I join feddit.uk with this same account?
You cannot login to that instance with these credentials no, but you can access all the communities on that instance and engage with them through fmhy instance itself.
So there is no need to make a new account for every instance.
Found several community links in some chats. But clicking on them, opens the link in browser with an error. Is there some way to directly open the links in the Jerboa app?
presumably you can do this in the app, I have not tried as the process is cumbersome and much easier on pc.
you basically have to find the !community@domain string, then copy it and paste it back into your home instance search field & search for it, then navigate to it from your home instance to subscribe to it. i kind of got into a groove with it earlier and subbed to at least once community on each of these --> https://join-lemmy.org/instances
So are some methods of accessing communities from the federation working for people now? (ones from from Michael Altfield's guide) Earlier today I found that only manually going to lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/<community>@<server> works, and now it does "404: couldnt_find_community" for a while.
Also subscribing results in "Subscribe Pending" which doesn't seem to go away. Something that will resolve itself hopefully, but reporting in case others experience the same.
So I'm having an issue with accessing the thegarden.land, when I view it directly I see comments on posts, but when I access it at !gardening@thegarden.land through FMHY, I see the same posts but with no comments. Here are images showing my issue.
I attempted to login to thegarden.land with my username and password for FMHY, but I just get an indefinite spinner and no response. Is this an issue with lemmy, or something I'm doing wrong?
search for it like so from your home instance (fmhy), while you are logged in on your home instance - you wont be able to log into thegarden.land unless you have an account there.
my main instance is lemmy.world - subbed here earler today using that same process ;)
I'm wishing there was some type of bot that would search out new communities on other instances that were formed and would go through the process of searching and joining so it shows up for users when they go to all.
Not because the process is too cumbersome, but because I've found that older posts and comments that happened before anyone joined don't end up showing up which is a shame.
I'm pretty sure it's a bug. If you select "All", lemmy will show "local" at the top but will fetch "All" content anyway, You'll need to then select all and then local back again if you want to see local content again.
Kinda frustrating but should be an easy fix for devs.
Anyone have an updated guide for installing lemmy with docker? I've followed the instructions on join-lemmy docs but it fails and I'm too stupid to figure out why.