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How should I be using Lemmy? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With spez ascending the last few remaining levels of becoming an absolute wanker, it's about time I got more active and I have been wondering how should I be using Lemmy efficiently? Like many I migrated from Reddit and I was primarly using Apollo to browse through my subscribed subreddits.

Over here on Lemmy.one, I have subscribed to communities and I scroll through my feed by sorting "All > Top Day" because sorting "All > Hot" means I end up seeing the same threads.

Then earlier today I discovered https://beehaw.org/communities where I found many communities I would love to subscribe to but then I got confused because I am also subscribed to more or less similar communities on lemmy.one.

I think I am sort of struggling to wrap my head around how lemmy really works and where I should be hanging out. It was easier on reddit in the sense that if I wanted to go LOTRmemes, there was only subreddit but here on Lemmy, there seem to be multiple instances of the same community :D

To top it off, it is proving hard to login to beehaw [probably the server is under stress] with the same details I use to login into Lemmy.one.

Not to forget there's also Kbin which I haven't even begun exploring. Phew.

ps - my apologies if I am sounding slightly incoherent as this is all new to me. If there is anyone out there who has this all figured out, I'd appreciate any help here.

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

The kinks really need to be worked out and it all needs to be made far more noob friendly. When I opened this thread, I was super confused. I'm currently reading it on kbin.social with my kbin account. And it looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/2R8HjMa.png

I read the title, next to it: kbin.social. But obviously this thread isn't on kbin. It's on lemmy. Still showed up in my feed, even though I'm not subscribed to m/asklemmy. You're now saying beehaw is unfederated, but I've also subscribed to stuff on beehaw from kbin.

I assume it's largely because it's still early days, but oh boy. I'm relatively pc literate. I grew up using dos, have installed linux, and have no problem using the commandline in windows or osx. I've seen people far more pc literate than me getting confused by it all.

I can only imagine how confusing this must be for casual users.

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

That's due to a bug where local caches of remote communities are recognized as being under kbin.social instead of the actual domain they're on.

(Not disagreeing that it isn't newbie friendly at all. Just adding context)