This place is at a magical point in its growth where it has enough people to fully replace that other site for me (but higher quality), but it’s also still new and exciting and worth contributing to help it succeed.
Yeah it feels fun. For me it’s the only time I’ve actually enjoyed being involved in social media and I’m getting really into it lol. I’ve even started making memes!
Lemmy replaces Reddit addiction, and I feel like it made it even worse for some of us as there’s more incentive to make this place succeed as it is still in its early days 😁
I’ve spent the last month of my life basically glued to Lemmy, answering support requests and posting threads in communities I wanted to see grow. My work output may drop to zero, my marriage may fail, but goddammit there are people who don’t know how to sub to communities on another instance and they need my help!
So ehm, to someone who uses only wefwef, do you have any general tips? I don’t have any particular problem now but you seem the type who knows things that makes life easier! If that makes sense, English is not my language
The number one tip is to search for interesting communities through lemmyverse.net/communities, rather than your home instance’s search. This will let you find communities that are small or new and haven’t been synced to your home instance yet. You can set your home instance with the house icon at the top right, and then all links will open in your instance so you can easily subscribe.
It also lets you search Kbin magazines to subscribe to (through the top right hamburger menu) although federation between Lemmy and Kbin is sometimes a bit patchy.
Other than that, just remember all of the mobile apps are extremely new and if you’re struggling to do something, it might just be because it’s not supported in wefwef yet. Lemmy was clearly built by people who prefer to use desktop, but the mobile website is very functional and gives you full access, so that’s a good place to check if you can’t find how to do something within the app.
Looks like you’ve already got stuck in and been commenting a lot so keep it up, and welcome to Lemmy! 😊
At the rate the app devs are moving, I imagine a month from now they’ll be a bit more on par feature-wise and things will be more consistent. Then maybe I can pick one and uninstall the other hundred or so that currently live on my homescreen for tech support purposes!
On Reddit I would just lurk, but with Lemmy I really do want it to succeed, so I’ve been contributing where I can, and for whatever reason it’s been mainly on lotr memes (check them out by the way, !lotrmemes)
Never had an account on twitter as well. Mainly wanted to get some better visibility into various news and such. Plus federation is awesome. So far I’m pretty happy with it.
Same, I’m obsessed! I never posted or commented at all, now I mod 2 small communities lol. I didn’t even make memes until the other day, this is like my 5th one.
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