Getting started with Lemmy

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Index

1. Brief overview
2. Finding Communities
3. Adding Communities
4. Settings
5. Markdown
6. Lemmy Clients
7. 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.

5. Markdown

Posts may be stylized with Markdown. Here are a few guides on how to use Markdown:

• Basic writing and formatting syntax by Github EN
• Basic writing and formatting syntax by Github DE
• Media by join-lemmy.org

6. Lemmy Clients

in no particular order.

Web:

• mobile: wefwef.app git

iOS:

• Memmy for Lemmy: AppStore, TestFlight, git
• Mlem: TestFlight, git

Android:

• Jerboa for Lemmy: PlayStore, F-Droid, git
• Liftoff for Lemmy: PlayStore, git
• Thunder: git
• Slide for Lemmy: git
• Boost for Lemmy: GooglePlay
• Connect for Lemmy: GooglePlay

Other:

• CLI: Neon Modem Overdrive: git

7. Learn More/ Sources

• Lemmy Documentation
• The Federation Info: nice table
• Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities by Michael Altfield
• Lemmy Cafe 1st Steps Post
• Lemmy Apps
• Fedivesere Guide for Reddit refugees by @[email protected]

06.07.2023, @[email protected]