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It sounds like you came across documentation for how to host a Lemmy server. Can you explain what it is you're trying to do? I'm not sure what you mean by "use the official web app."
Well, I use Jerboa but it's unstable. So I went to that page: https://join-lemmy.org/apps and tried to link to "official web app". But I came accross Github a few other times and I'm always confused...
The link there is for hosting the web app, not for users. You should just go to the URL of your Lemmy home instance.
All right thanks.
The βofficial web appβ is how people can self-host Lemmy, to access it as a user it's just the website.
Got you thanks. I'd still like to find a basic tutorial on Github one day.
If you want to self-host Lemmy you can just use this easy install script, just make sure to modify the config file to suite your setup it's only a couple variables, and it's pretty self-explanatory. https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
If you're not a developer all you really need to know is how to check a Readme file, and the releases page.
What do you want to learn about it? Functionally you can just think about it as a place where people host code collaborate on on code. Your best bet, as another comment pointed out, is to just look at a project's README, which will usually display on the main project page for a project beneath the directory structure of the project (all the files on folders that are listed).
Also, at the top of a project page, there's a bunch of tabs. One of those is an "Issues" tab where you can find and file bug reports.
Beyond that, it's hard to explain too much more without talking about what
gitis and how it works, which is not a small subject.