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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 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...

[email protected] ... 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...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here's a link: /c/[email protected]

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.

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

Huh! Clicking that actually crashes Jerboa...

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

Edit: replies with the wrong account. See edit above.

Note to self: be careful signing into accounts on multiple instances!

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

Oohhh, so that is how you do the links!!

Testing: /c/[email protected]

EDIT: Seems to work! Hopefully Lemmy will make it so things of the format /c/[email protected] are automatically linked without having to mess with markdown.

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

There's the Nature and Gardening community on Beehaw.org, you might want to check that out.