It’s great to see you, how are you doing? You find your way here, all right? Want something to drink? Cookies?
First and foremost, this is an unofficial Ghost community: I don’t have anything to do with the band, I am but a humble archivist. I am also not one that you are familiar with as I’ve kept a fairly low profile and genuinely, prefer that. However, given the current state of things and the fact that they might just be circling the drain over there: I thought I’d provide something of an alternative.
So, where are you now?
This is Lemmy and it is part of the fediverse. That is a collection of decentralized and open social network platforms: you might have heard of Mastadon. Not the band, though we like them, too. Mastodon is like Twitter, if Twitter wasn’t an awful place largely fueled by rabid gerbils.
Though Lemmy does have some similarities to other platforms- it is decentralized. This means that you’ve got a little bit more freedom to do things in ways you enjoy. Lemmy’s servers are called instances- can be hosted by anyone, so this means that no one entity or person is in control of anything. (Ooo that makes the little control freak in me get a bit antsy- but excited.) There are quite a few instances that you can choose from: this community is on Lemmy.world, but there is also lemmy.one, beehaw.org, and lemmy.ca. Most of these instances are linked together, so that the communities are under a somewhat collective umbrella. You can create an account on any instance you choose: you will still be able to read and interact with those on other instances.
Now, if you’re gonna want to do this on a mobile device: I recommend signing up on Lemmy, first as it's a little easier that way for me but you can do what you want.
For Android, you’ll be looking at Jerboa, the official Lemmy Android app. You can find that via The Play Store or over on F-Droid
For iOS, you’re going to need TestFlight and once you have that, pop over to Github where you will find the beta. Once you get there, go to ReadMe and you should be able to get everything set up and activated, easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
You can see a lot more information on how things work in a nutshell on Lemmy’s Getting Started post.
Anyhoozles! I hope to see lots of your tour photos, stories and just maybe, we can do a little lore exploring. ;)