Hello everyone,

So, I learned about Lemmy through one of the subreddits I’m in participating in the blackout. I don’t really ‘get’ how to Lemmy yet but I like it here.

Is there any material for learning how do use Lemmy effectively? There’s a few things I’m not sure 'bout.

I’ve found some… instances(?), think that’s the right term, and would like to join. Do I have to re-create my account/create a new account for each or is there a way to connect my existing account to the new instance?

Is there a way to search for instances of a specific purpose rather than browse a listing of some number of instances?

  • OstrichgrifEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy definitely has the steepest learning curve of any social media I’ve ever used. I think you should just be able to log into dormi.zone and you should be able to post or comment anywhere. I registered my account on lemmygrad so I’m not sure if you need to get approved to comment but I don’t think that’s the case.

    Once you get the hang of things you could always create and mod a DnDGreentext community here, or atleast in the short term post your writeups to dndmemes@sh.itjust.works, if they’re not meant to be funny you could probably put them on the main dnd community.

    When I registered the top post I had was a guide made and pinned by the mods of lemmygrad, which was super helpful, hopefully the other instance mods follow suite. Good luck and remember to let me know if you end up creating that community, I would definitely join!

    • Halasham@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks. Still having a pretty bad time of it. I can at-least see Lemmygrad stuff without having to log in so I’ll give that a look and see if it makes any of this less frustrating.

      Edit: Nope, not really. My best guess for why atm would be Lemmygrad & Dormi.zone not being federated but I know absolutely fuck-all about how Federation works.

      • OstrichgrifEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Being federated is basically your instance agreeing to show posts and users of another instance. I would be really surprised if dormi.zone was defederated since it seems like a pretty normal instance, lemmygrad would make more sense but it’s so popular I don’t think many instances have defederated them either. It’s probably just a bug, Lemmy has plenty and I’ve only ever used it on the Jerboa android app, never in browser. Stick with it, maybe some improvements will be made.

        • Halasham@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Thanks. I think I will be sticking around and poking at it some more it seems like it is just glitchy behavior going on. I can see some communities from Lemmygrad through browsing under all but not the one’s I want.