Ask Lemmy

Thanks for asking this!

I set up accounts on both in the hysteria of leaving reddit.

I think I get how the various lemmys work/interact, I just don't know how Kbin fits into the picture.

I am just using my laptop, not on mobile devices yet.

Third day here, so still learning and giving lots of time and patience for the dust to settle

Yeah, that would be a helpful addition if there were space for it. Also a description of what the funky address parts do like in [email protected]

Yeah, that's true.

Says the guy with pride who snagged python on the biggest obviously programming instance :-) nice one!

"go to lemmyverse.nst and find the biggest"

not actually mine , credit is on the bottom left, but I cant even re-load the image, let alone lemmy.world, it's all so slow. I was actually trying to find the original to link to someone else and couldnt load lemmy.world

Because currently lemmy doesn't substitute links to rewrite them from your own community.

Eg. [email protected] would refer to https://lemmy.one/c/[email protected] From your instance. If people don't link correctly though it'll direct to https://sh.itjust.works/c/cats which you wouldn't be able to join

Essentially as long as your instance isn't actively defederated from a given instance, you can typically join your instances "mirror" of that community.

Say you wanted to join cats on sh.itjust.works... you can open your instances search and paste [email protected] into your search

Two likely possibilities with further detail about each below:

1. The link you clicked took you to the community on the host instance rather than the copy on your local instance, or

2. The community is on an instance that’s defederated with your home instance.

When you view and interact with communities and content hosted on another server, you’re technically interacting with a copy of that community/content that’s hosted on your home server and kept in sync with the main copy. So if I want to subscribe to /c/technology hosted on lemmy.world even though my home instance is sh.itjust.works, I need to visit the copy on shitjustworks at sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

If I went to lemmy.world/c/technology, I couldn’t interact because I don’t have an account on the lemmy.world site.

As I said above, communities and content are copied between Lemmy instances and kept in sync across the copies. But sometimes an instance will ‘defederate’ with another, ie cutting the direct connection between them that lets them copy and sync content. In that case, there’s no local copy for me to subscribe to or interact with.

The incorrect link is far more likely to be the issue than defederation, so whenever you run into that issue check the link and make sure it’s the copy on your instance.

Possible that said instance has defederated from your instance.

Beehaw defederated from a couple specific Lemmy servers, not Lemmy overall.

Beehaw's instance page lists instances they have blocked.

You can access and subscribe to communities in other instances as long as they are still federated (connected) with the instance your account is in.

If you want to subscribe to a community on another instance, copy the URL of the community and paste it into the search of your own instance.

It might take several seconds while it searches but it should eventually show up, then you can click/tap on it and then click the subscribe button in the sidebar.

You don't have to make a new account for that instance, and communities on other instances should show up on search :)

kbin is also a part of the fediverse. It’s similar enough to Lemmy that (as far as I can tell) they seem to be virtually interchangeable.

I think you'll only be able to see your posts, and not your comments. So if you have no posts, you'll have nothing to show mastodon users.

One thing that I think is neat, and others think is a problem, is that you can @ tag any mastodon user with Lemmy and vice versa, and they'll get a ping and be able to respond to it and join the conversation.