Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

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I'm not sure if there is a specific community for 'alternatives', and you might be better off asking in the communities for a particular topic. That way you're more likely to reach people that know about the options that are available. Some general communities that come to mind:

Higher quality products:

• !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

Alternatives from specific regions:

• !buycanadian@lemmy.ca
• !buyeuropean@feddit.uk
• !BuyEuropean@lemm.ee
• !buyfromeu@feddit.org
• !buyafrican@baraza.africa

General questions:

• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

If you have specific topics that you want to ask about, I can look for related communities (like say !askandroid@lemdro.id and !android@lemdro.id )

Would you be able to share an example? (Short description or screenshot is fine)

We might be able to clarify or add it to the guides in the future

Sounds good, and that's understandable. I think most of us went through a bit of that when we started.

There are a few key differences, but once you get familiar with them it's smooth sailing

Not at all :)

I use a mobile app on my phone, and the browser on the computer.

While this data is somewhat outdated now, here is the data from a census we ran for lemmy.ca over a year ago

https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-02-10_censusResults#_3-8-mobile-interface-usage

We didn't include an option for web browser usage that time so the numbers are likely off, but we plan on fixing that next time.

The apps have also evolved a lot since then, so I'd go off of lemmyapps.com for judging popularity

Welcome :)

If anyone is curious, the post sorting calculations are also public (the code is open source). As a summary:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

• Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
• Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
• Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.

No more hidden algorithms was a big one for me. I personally use 'Scaled', and sometimes flip to the other ones to take a peek

For you the website would be

https://lemm.ee/

Same as your 'instance' (lemm.ee)

Welcome!

Here is a post we made recently for new users, and it has links to some guides (infographic style)

https://lemmy.ca/post/39167034

The 'detailed guide on how Lemmy works' goes over the local vs federated communities, and I think the visuals help with understanding that

There's also a guide for the apps, but the short answer is that there are so many apps because it's very easy to make them. It's all open and the platform is designed to make it easy to connect to. My advice is to stick to whichever app you feel comfortable with, and then if there is a feature you're looking for then you can post about it in !lemmyapps@lemmy.world. That way either someone can tell you about an app that has what you want, or the various developers will get your feedback and start working on implementing it.

As for what an instance is, see the 'quick overview of the fediverse' guide.

For photos, I'm not familiar with lemm.ee's policies but it could be a bug? We don't have as much of the "account must be X days old to participate" type stuff here. You can also always upload to Imgur or Catbox and link the image.

Edit: my bad, I see the note about lemm.ee's image policy. The Imgur thing should work in the meantime

Hopefully that helps, and I'm happy to answer any follow-up questions :) Especially if there's something confusing with the guides, so that we can improve them

It looks the URL got dropped from your post, likely this one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/measles-outbreak-reported-in-northern-alberta-community-of-john-d-or-prairie-1.7480122

I've seen this a few times recently, and I think the 'create post' UI could be improved for new users, specifically around the image upload and thumbnail options. You can have either a link or an image, but not both, and the thumbnail is applied separately

What I like to do is

• paste in the link
• add the title (if it didn't autofill)
• copy a link to an image from the news article and paste it in the thumbnail field

Lemmy lets you edit any part of a post after posting, so I sometimes fix things if it doesn't look right.

(also welcome to Lemmy.ca 😊)

Some apps (ex. Boost in my case) use polled notifications, where the app checks every hour and makes a notification if there's anything new. Generally Lemmy replies aren't urgent so this hasn't been a problem

What is this referring to? There's so much going on right now

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