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Getting Started with Lemmy (lemmy.iqecke.de)

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Getting started with Lemmy

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Index

Brief overview
Finding Communities
Adding Communities
Settings
Markdown
Lemmy Clients
Learn More/ Sources

1. Brief overview

Lemmy is a federated and self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion forum. Each instance is able to connect with other instances (via ActivityPub). This means it doesn't matter which instance you sign up with since you're still able to see and interact with communities from other public instances. Communities are the Lemmy equivalent of Reddit's Subreddits.

Your account is tied to an instance.
You can reach all other instances via the instance you signed up with.
You can post in any communities that have not been banned by your instance.
You can comment on any posts in any communities that have not been banned by your instance.
You can only create communities in the same instance as your account, assuming the instance allows new community creation.

This image by @ulu_[email protected] may explain things better :)

2. Finding communities

Local communities and already known communities can be found through the "Communities" tab in the navbar. The easiest ways to find new communities are the following:

The Lemmy Community Browser by feddit.de: Simple search for communities by name
Sub.rehab: Find your Reddit communities on other platforms incl. Lemmy
Redditmigration.com: similiar to sub.rehab
yosaif's Sub Migration List

3. Joining communities

To join a community (e.g. this one: lemmy.iqecke.de/c/ibd), just find the community identifier ([[email protected]](/c/[email protected])) in the sidebar of a remote community and paste it into the search-field of the Community-Tab on your home instance.

4. Settings

The settings page is located in the dropdown of your profile. From there, you're able to change your account information, delete your account and more. From there, you're also able to change your preferred display language (by default Lemmy always picks ur browser's default language. Moreover, you can also change the used theme from there. Currently night-crystal is this instance's default theme. Feel free to contact the instance Admin Team to add more themes.