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Tips for a new user! (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Pliny@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Reddit refugee here - stumbled across Lemmy as it was mentioned in a comment on Artifact but intrigued by this format and communities!

Looking for tips as a brand new user to get the most out of it - any advice is welcome! I’m using Mlem which seems to be working pretty well so far.

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[–] TiresomeOuting@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I subscribe to a lemmy community from kbin? I've tried searching and waiting like on lemmy and it still doesn't show up.

Is there a certain format? I tried fill url, !community@instance, community@instance

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@community@instance.tld that's a more common way across the fediverse and also how you follow people, including those on other platforms like Mastodon and Calckey, etc.

[–] TiresomeOuting@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe it's something with the specific community I'm looking for?

I'm trying @canada

Edit: that is rendering strangly in my reply. The community is called canada and the instance is lemmy.ca

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh, that is strange. I wonder if that one isn't federating for some reason. I can find @canada@lemmy.ml but @canada@lemmy.ca turns up nothing. Neither does https://lemmy.ca/c/canada 🤔

Edit: I forgot there are issues with federation right now because of the cloudflare check. It should only be temporary. See Ernest's post

[–] TiresomeOuting@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, hopefully that's it. Kbin seems nicer than lemmy but I need some of the communities from lemmy! I was wondering if lemmy.ca was defederated from here or something but good to hear that isn't it.

I'll check back in a few days.