Is there an orientation manual for Lemmy? Honestly, Lemmy isn’t even the first DDG result for Lemmy (the first result is the Motorhead founder).

What I really want to know is how to pull in forums from other servers because I’m used to a very curated firehouse of content from Reddit and Lemmy so far seems more about making do with what conversation and audience are available. I found a page from 3 years ago describing a somehwat programmery process to do so…

Also, is there a place to find similar reddit subs? My favorite sub on reddit was the subreddit NOT about literally fucking cars but about the importance of micromobility in a car-dominated landscape. Also: cats who look like Ron Perlman.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    I think you’re assuming a know a lot more than I do. So I made an account and joined sh.itjust.works. I have a home feed, which I thought was just local stuff, but maybe also includes some common things with lemmy.world (including maybe this post itself?)

    So far I’ve blocked one community and one user because there was some passive aggressive shit going and I got that scapegoat-vibe so common in reddit. Got some hope for Lemmy, because, yeah, I think people just get stupid when there’s enough of them together in the same place.

    And even though sh.itjust.works is tagged a FR-EN community, ain’t seen a lick of french anywhere.

    • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      There are typically 3 feeds:

      • Subscribed - this only shows posts from communities you have subscribed
      • Local - only posts from communities on your local or home instance, you may see post’s and comments from people on other instances, but all of the communities are on sh.itjust.works
      • All - this shows all posts from communities across any instance*
      • only posts from communities that a user on your home instance is subscribed to appear, also your instance can block instances. Those blocked instances will not appear.

      Re French: there is an instance called jlai.lu that is a French instance. You can check out their communities and subscribe for more French content.

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      If you’re looking for French, pas de bol, ce n’est pas très courant 🙂

      What I meant was, don’t sweat it too much. Just use it and you’ll figure things out pretty quickly. It’s not rocket science.

      And yeah, you’ll find idiots here too. Like, a lot of idiots. Idiots are everywhere. But they tend to concentrate more on Reddit than on Lemmy, which is why I prefer this place.

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        I was glad to learn it’s a Canadian server, because I was worried if it was in France I’d be absolutely screwed by the time zone difference…

        But they might want to update their whole “Bilingual” community in the tag, because it’s all in English.

        I’m a self-aware idiot, so I appreciate communities that don’t allow mef to indulge my basal ganglia.