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A place to read and post guides to using and enjoying Lemmy.

Examples: Guides to Lemmy subscriptions, tips about mobile clients, how to find remote communities etc.

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If you are a new user to Lemmy, the most important thing is to subscribe to lots of communities so you get a nice feed of new posts and comments.

Click on Communities link at the top and select All. A long list of communities will appear. Subscribe to many of them. You can always unsubscribe if they are annoying you later.

This list of communities are only the ones that someone has subscribed to on this instance already. But there is something like 20.000+ communities in the entire lemmy network.

Go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities in a new tab. If you want to subscribe to something here, copy the link (ex: [email protected]).

Paste that link into the search box here at lemmy.today. Make sure Communities is selected in the list box to filter out comments etc.

It should look like this:

Clicking on the green link will take you to the community and you can click Subscribe on the upper right:

And thats about it. If you have any questions, just ask. :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I followed these steps and I was able to subscribe to a couple communities. However I wanted to sub to [email protected] and from this instance and the memmy app I’m seeing that it has one subscriber (presumably me?) however clicking into the direct link I can then see the activity. I’m still very new to this, am I missing a step?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi!

I think you did it right :) But the way Lemmy is designed, it doesn't copy over historic posts and comments before you subscribed. I had a look at the community over at dormi.zone and there has been only one post since you subscribed, and that one you see here on Lemmy.today. But you won't see the older ones. New ones will pop up here though.

It's a bit confusing, all of this, in the beginning. :)

Make sure to subscribe to lots of communities since only a few has lots of content, and it can feel like Lemmy is a wasteland otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks so much for the response. I’m enjoying figuring out something new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Me too, it's fun with technology that isn't owned by big tech. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems https://lemmyverse.net/communities isn't loading for me. Happen to know if the page was moved?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's loading now so probably some temporary hickup. That site is not maintained by us at Lemmy.today but it's been a very good resource to link to so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That site is not maintained by us at Lemmy.today

All good, I assumed that to be the case, will wait for them to be back up then, thanks for the continuous work @mrmanager, I think what you have here so far is pretty cool. Stay awesome.

Update: It's back! XD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Go get those sweet communities :)