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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by jaykay@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

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[–] citizenpremier@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm confused to be honest, but I admit I just started. But like, where do I look at pictures of houseplants and post mine? Do I find a server devoted to houseplants? Or maybe I should just finally figure out Instagram for that.

[–] daguito81@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't have to find an instance for X, just a community. Go to the communities tab and search for 'plants' and see what comes uob. It'll show the communities in your instance and then in other instances. Click onntnem subscribe its all connected.

Then on your Frontpage there is a tab on top between Subscribed, Local, All.

Subscribed shows posts from everything you subscribed only. Local is posts from your instance only All is posts from all instances federated.

[–] blackbrook@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a houseplants sub on mander.xyz. I'll see if I can figure out how to link it...

!houseplants@mander.xyz ... Nope...

https://mander.xyz/c/houseplants ... Jumps to the browser at least in Jerboa.

No idea if there is an equivalent of typing r/subreddit...

[–] sirdavidxvi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's a link: /c/houseplants@mander.xyz

Linking is a bit clunky and a lot of people post direct links to a community with its home instance URL, which causes problems when you're browsing around. That's an issue I hope improves over time as the software matures.

Edit: I don’t know if that link will work in apps. I’m using the TestFlight of Mlem on iOS and it just crashes the app 😂. But in the browser it’ll take you to the community in your home instance instead of the community’s home instance.

[–] blackbrook@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Huh! Clicking that actually crashes Jerboa...

[–] sirdavidxvi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if that link will work in apps. I'm using the TestFlight of Mlem on iOS and it just crashes the app 😂. But in the browser it'll take you to the community in your home instance instead of the community's home instance.