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'Beginner's Guide to Lemmy' Collection (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [M] to c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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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.

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.

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[โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

Can someone help me with uploading avatar? Every time it shows me an error

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    [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Anyone know how I can get something similar to 'infinite scroll' with RES? ie it only updates when I scroll to the bottom.

    I find myself looking at the front page and then losing my place as a spam of updates coming in.

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    • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeahโ€ฆ. finding subs is hard here. Needs to be simplified.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah but you have to have an IT degree to subscribe to something. Even on that website we canโ€™t just hit โ€œsubscribeโ€

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    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.

    it's very cumbersome but it does work. perhaps things will change in the future, or maybe not.

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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?

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Brand newb here. Do i have to join all of them with different logins or?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I definitely need answers for this, too.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You can't reuse the login to difference instances, but you can interact with different instances, like how I am commenting from beehaw.org instance.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sweet, thanks! Also, my first comment in this fediverse thing, here we go!

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    How does that work exactly? I am registered here, but want to subscribe to communities over on feddit.de It only gives me an error message on the bottom left that I'm not logged in when hitting "subscribe".

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for linking my guide mate!

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    [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    Wayback Machine link to r/KbinMigration's guide for those trying to avoid giving Reddit traffic right now

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    [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Have we created a list of piracy related Lemmy subs that our FMHY members can use to jump start their new accounts?

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    • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hey, we have an FAQ at lemm.ee that could be added to your list!

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    • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    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.

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    • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    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?

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    [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    Is there some script to automate finding any of the 100's of subreddits, YouTube channels etc, we're subscribed to, To migrate?

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    [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can we add https://lemmyverse.net/communities to the list to spread the word about the tool?

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    • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I set type to "all" in my settings, but the default is still "local." Anyone know what's up with that?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    This is gonna make for some good reading this weekend! Thank you for putting this together!

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    [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    From a Reddit refugee I love this. Is there any current way to save posts like this?

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    • [โ€“] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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/@ 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.

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