I’m confused asf
On your homepage, you have some options at the top for what to display.
The first option is Subscribed/Local/All. The default is Local - change it to either Subscribed (If you like subscribing to communities) or All (If you prefer to just see everything). Keeping it on “Local” is a pretty poor way to use Lemmy - it’ll only show you posts from lemmy.world and never from any of the other Lemmy instances. This goes for when you’re searching for communities too - make sure you set the search to “All” and not “Local”.
The second option is how to sort - with the default being “Active”. “Active” is a bit too slow to update for most people’s taste - you might find you like “Hot” a lot more. You can set the default for both of these options to whatever you want on your settings page.
When browsing, if you find a certain community (subreddit) consistently puts posts in your feed that you don’t like, there’s a handy button to block that community if you go to it, in the top right.
Past that, just do your best to be active - more active than you may have been on reddit, because Lemmy is a lot smaller. Upvote posts you like, comment on posts where you have something to add, and post things you find elsewhere.
Join lemmynsfw.com right now
Thanks, spez?
Lol
Grab some water and stay hydrated.
Post the first thing that comes to your mind in [email protected]. Oh, wait…
If you are using your phone, get one of the mobile apps (Voyager, Liftoff, Infinite, Connect or Sync for Lemmy) and then use it just as with reddit. You already have created your account, thus chosen your instance, which is the biggest ‘This is different’ topic.
heh, hem! Jerboa
Ok so I know Jerboa has it’s fans, and I’m sure I’m going to get downvoted for this. But.
In my opinion, Jerboa has the worst interface of all of the lemmy apps that are out, and should not be promoted to new users.
I said it. Bring on the downvotes. It hurts because in your hearts you also know it is true.
I don’t know that it’s true because I’ve never seen what the other apps look like!
I was also a Baconreader user so I’m used to not having a fancy UI
I’ve used Jerboa and Liftoff and Jerboa is much better. What do you use? What specific things make it better?
I was using Connect, and am now using Sync.
To be honest, I don’t remember the specifics of Jerboa. I remember it feeling very utilitarian though. Not terrible for some people, I understand that. It just felt like it was designed by programmers, if that makes sense.
I prefer a more white-space centric design. Cards, material design, with gesture based controls. Connect actually does that well, but I think Sync might be coded
betterdifferently, because it feels a lot more smooth. No jankiness. It doesn’t feel like a web app.I kinda threw a lot of concepts out there, hopefully some of that made sense haha.
Also, I don’t mean to say that people who like Jerboa are somehow wrong - you like what you like and I’m glad you have something that you like :D.
Just tried Connect and Liftoff and both were bad compared to Jerboa. On one I couldn’t even figure out how to down vote. I think I’ll wait a few more months and try out the competition again.
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Try to find funny posts, although that might be somewhat of a challenge.
Bake a cake
And post it ona food community. If anyone figures out how to join one, that would be a great next step.
Search https://lemmyverse.net/communities for any communities you may be interested in. Many of them have the same or similar names to reddit subs. Also, subscribe to [email protected]. Once you have a few, flip your feed over to “subscribed” and browse your custom feed. Occasionally pop back into All to see if there are any other good ones you may have missed.
If you hate the web version of lemmy like I do, check out the mobile apps, which tend to have a more reddit-like design.
And once you’ve done all that, the only thing left to do it shitpost.
Go to the communities page for your instance, set it to all, and scroll through the first several pages adding anything that sounds interesting. Don’t worry if there are duplicates, sub them all. The search for any favorite topics and add those communities, too. Then browse by subscribed»new going forward.
You can also check out [email protected] for communities still getting off the ground.
Oh! And when linking, do it like I did above; this link works no matter what instance you’re on.
Thanks
Also check https://lemmyverse.net to see list of all known communities. If you click the home icon, you can set your instance (which is lemmy.world for you) and all the communities will open on your instance correctly. All the instance things might be confusing at first, but you’ll grasp it soon enough, no need to worry about that.
How did I miss this, thanks! What an awesome website.
Select “All” instead of “Local”, sort by “Top 12 Hour”, and enjoy.
This is the way.
This and keep subscribing to anything that interests you
First I tried a few mobile apps, sticking with Sync for Lemmy for now.
I also went to Sub.rehab, filtered by highest active users and subscribed to the communities I was interested in. Then subscribed to a few I was interested in even if it has a low amount of users.
Next step is to join [email protected] and [email protected] , you’ll then quickly get the hang of it.
Lol those were among the first communities I blocked
Same, ha ha! But it’s about personalising the experience to what the user is interested in to my mind
Why join them if they both jump to c/All all the time?
Because eventually you’ll want to stop browsing c/all after you find enough of your preferred content.
I rarely browse by c/All. A curated experience is better than a mishmash of everything imo.
What I want to meant was that they always get too popular and will probably spam your subscribed feed, as it happened to me.
If I want to see memes a quick glance to c/All would do.
Find and join a few communities you like…
