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(This starting guide is currently being created, if you have any suggestions of what could be included please comment below)

Welcome!

Welcome to Lemmy

About Lemmy

Lemmy is a federated social link aggregation and discussion platform.. It’s being developed by the Lemmy devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet

About Federation

What does federation mean?

It means Lemmy is using a protocol (Activitypub) which makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact with each other.

You can search and view communities on remote servers from here
You can create posts in remote communities
You can respond to remote posts
You will be notified (if you wish) of comments on your remote posts
You can follow Lemmy users/communities on other platforms that also use the Activitypub protocol like Mastodon

Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server.

About Vlemmy

Vlemmy is a generalized Lemmy server aimed at welcoming all and providing a space for all types of topics and discussions. We are one of the many servers hosting the Lemmy software. It was started on June 7th, 2023 by @[email protected].

Quick Start Guide

Account

You can use your account you created to log in to the server on which you created it. Not on other servers. Content is federated to other servers, users/accounts are not.

Searching

In the top menu, you’ll see the search icon. There, you can search for posts, communities etc. You can just enter a search-word and it will find the Post-titles, post-content, communities etc containing that word that the server knows of. So any content any user of this server ever interacted with.

You can also search for a community by it’s link, e.g. [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) or its URL, e.g. https://[email protected]. Even if the server hasn’t ever seen that community, it will look it up remotely. Sometimes it takes some time for it to fetch the info (and displays ‘No results’ meanwhile…) so just be patient and search a second time after a few seconds. Please note search time may be increase if remote servers are experiencing high loads.

For a more in depth list of remote communities, visit https://browse.feddit.de From there you can copy your chosen communities URL and search for it in VLemmy.

Communities

Before you create a community make sure it doesn’t already exist. Use search (see above). Also try https://browse.feddit.de to see if there are remote communities on other Lemmy servers that aren’t known to VLemmy.net yet.

If you’re sure it doesn’t exist yet, go to the homepage and click ‘Create a Community’.

It will open up the following page:

Here you can fill out:

Name: should be all lowercase letters. This will be the /c/
Display name: As to be expected, this will be the displayed name.
You can upload an icon and banner image. Looks pretty.
The sidebar should contain things like description, rules, links etc. You can use Markdown
If the community will contain mainly NSFW content, check the NSFW mark.
If you only want moderators to be able to post, check that checkbox.
Select any language you want people to be able to post in. You shouldn’t de-select ‘Undetermined’. Some apps use ‘Undetermined’ as the default language so don’t work if you don’t have it selected

Reading

I think the reading is obvious. Just click the post and you can read it. Sometimes when there are many comments, they will partly be collapsed.

Posting

When viewing a community, you can create a new post in it. First of all make sure to check the community’s rules, probably stated in the sidebar.

In the Create Post page these are the fields:

URL: Here you can paste a link which will be shown at the top of the post. Also the thumbnail of the post will link there. Alternatively you can upload an image using the image icon to the right of the field. That image will also be displayed as thumbnail for the post.
Title: The title of the post.
Body: Here you can type your post. You can use Markdown if you want.
Community: select the community where you want this post created, defaults to the community you were in when you clicked ‘create post’
NSFW: Select this if you post any NSFW material, this blurs the thumbnail and displays ‘NSFW’ behind the post title. Also hides the post from those who choose not to see NSFW content.
Language: Specify in which language your post is.

Also see the Lemmy documentation on formatting etc.

Commenting

Moderating

Client Applications

Android

Jebora - A native Android app made by Lemmy's developers

iOS

Mlem - A Lemmy Client for iOS

Issues

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Support Megathread (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For everything you've always wanted to know about Lemmy but were afraid to make a post for.

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Newbie issues (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi transitioning from Reddit after being there since before Digg migration. Liking Lemmy but having 2 issues hoping to get advice on. Using firefox on mac.

Content movement: from the home screen when I select all, there is a loading period and the posts are populated. However as new instances collect everything just piles into the top making pics/posts I'm looking at move and self close. Is this expected behavior?
Ranking: imo the breakthrough reddit provided was in aggregating and ranking via votes. Whether it is through hot, controversial, top, etc there is an underlying algorithm that orders the posts. Due to the way content seems to come in from instances, I seem to get two different behaviors. The main page is either blocks of rank lists from each instance instead of a single rank order or the setting (hot, activity, top, etc) just doesn't seem to apply. The linked image is a screenshot of an attempt to filter all by top of week. The top posts have 1-2 votes on them.

These are probably just bugs on my end and I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

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Subscribe pending for days (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am aware that lemmy.ml has been fairly stressed, but have a few subscriptions such as [email protected] which have been stuck on Subscribe pending for days.

They have switched to a new server at lemmy.ml in last few days and it seems fairly more responsive so wondering if the process is stuck somehow on vlemmy.

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Remember to Report (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder from a member of one of your mod teams. Don't forget to report bad actors, malicious bots, or rulebreakers whenever you see them. vlemmy.net is a rapidly growing instance and as more people join, post, and comment, it will get harder for the admins/moderators to keep up. Reporting helps the admins/moderators immediately address bad behavior, making the community better for everyone and easing everyone's workload, so remember to report.

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Having trouble subscribing [solved] (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/mst3k and https://feddit.de/c/raspberrypi , but I can't seem to subscribe to anything outside of vlemmy, lemmy.ml and beehaw.

I tried using the method in the "How to Join Lemmy" post, and the instructions on the page (ie. copy and paste "[email protected]" in the search)

Am I doing it wrong, or is some type of server thing? I don't know how any of this works

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How to Join Lemmy (vlemmy.net)

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How to Join Lemmy

To use Lemmy, you need to be a member of one instance like this one https://vlemmy.net or others from the list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances. You will still be able to see content from anywhere, but the instance you choose will determine:

What URL you use to log in to Lemmy,
What content shows on the homepage when you select "Local" or "All",
Who moderates your instance, and
What rules you agree to when you sign up.

Choose an instance that matches your interests, language, and region. (If you want more information about an instance, you can tap its "Join" button, which will show you its current homepage in the main view and its description in the sidebar.)

Please avoid joining instances that are already crowded. Join instances with 500 members or less as a rule of thumb. This isn't a hard set rule but doing so help the Lemmy network as a whole.

Once you have decided on an instance, tap its "Join" button to open it and then tap "Sign Up" in the upper-right corner. Fill out the form and wait for your account to be approved.

When your account is approved, log in and customize your profile and settings. If you change your language settings, select "Undetermined" in addition to any languages you speak so that you can still see posts and comments that are not tagged as being in any particular language.

How to Find and Subscribe to Communities

There are two ways to find communities through Lemmy:

To browse communities that others in your instance are already subscribed to, tap the "Communities" tab at the top of the page and choose the "All" scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through your instance.
To browse communities across all instances, visit https://browse.feddit.de/. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps:

a. Copy the community's URL. You can either use the copy button next to the community name or else open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar.

b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar.

c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator".

d. Paste the community's URL into the search field and tap "Search".

e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again.

f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance.

Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar.

Can't find a community you're looking for? Subscribe to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity and make a post about what you're looking for. Or, if it doesn't exist yet, and your instance allows it, create the community yourself.