What is the philosophy behind downvotes? Downvote non-productive/bad faith comments or downvote things you do not like?

How does lemmy mark a post as read? I want to scroll past posts and have them automatically marked read, and then not show them to me again. Every time i open lemmy I'm seeing the same posts I've seen many times. Yes, even when I am not sorting on 'active'

Great write up, I appreciate this as I get stuck into Lemmy.

Does the 'local' tab just refer to posts from your home instance, eg; .world?

Is there a karma system?

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I'd really like to have the ability to disable embedded images in comments. I want to see only text, not 50 memes, RES had this as a feature.

I made a picture to try and explain a few basic concepts (hopefully) in a simple way, if you think it can help, feel free to link it in the guide, if not it's ok :)

https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY

I don't know why you were at 0 votes for this, but thanks for taking this on! I think a lot of folks will benefit.

Edit: vote count is probably incorrect and just due to being from a newer instance!

Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to test whether I could post a comment here.

that info graphic was great! thanks for posting this

As someone who used voat for awhiel here are my tips:

1. USE this platform, don't use reddit. USE this platform and give it content. Content is basically the same as oxygen you can't deprive it, POST often and comment OFTEN.
2. Don't dwell on reddit too much. Voat's only active communities were about shit posting on reddit (they had a /v/MeanwhileOnReddit and a few banned communities and that was it, nobody used any other communities). Find your favorite community and build it. Build just 1 ideally, anymore is too thin. I am building up https://lemmy.world/c/frugal

Is there a way to turn off auto-refresh on the homepage's posts? Sometimes its cool to drink from the firehose, but other times you're trying to read titles of posts and they refresh and scroll off faster than you can keep up with. Would be great to have a auto/manual toggle for refreshing.

How can i help donate and support lemmy.wold and the greater Lemmy ecosystem?

In my haste to sign up I jumped into Lemmy.ca, as I followed a favorite subreddit there. Now I'm feeling like I would prefer a more general instance. Can I switch from lemmy.ca to Lemmy.world? Outside of the local view does it even matter?

Could you update this to point out one of the major differences that most Redditors won't expect?:
When using ActivityPub Upvotes and Downvotes are public to every service that reads into it (such as Kbin).

Could you sticky a donation link on the top of this community? Or put it in the community-info section?

Hi, thanks for the post. This bit confuses me: "Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server."
How does a user interact with a server for the first time, for lemmy.world to start indexing it?

Also, I know it's typed out somewhere, but I can't find it and couldn't understand it anyway. Could someone explain to me as if I'm technologically useless and just a bit dense generally, how to connect with communities on other instances? Something about copying links and pasting them somewhere? I'm on jerboa if that means anything.

RIF transplant. Happy to be here. Thank you for the tutorial looking forward to start playing catchup

I've seen repeated accusations that lemmy is tankie/red-fash, especially when it comes to those that control it - mods/admins/w/e. How true is this?

When I'm on the homepage, I click "All" then sort by Hot. I get a nice list of posts from all over which is really good. But after a few seconds new posts take the top slots of hot and makes just scrolling through unusable. Is there a setting I'm missing for how to keep it from refreshing until I actually hit the refresh button?

May I suggest to add a link to donate in order to contribute to the financial efforts behind Lemmy.world? @ruud@lemmy.world

Thank you very much for this post! It helped me a lot. I suggest caution with using browse.feddit.de though. They do not include all instances - like for example my home instance reddthat.com - you might miss a great community because of that.

EDIT: Now reddthat.com is back on the browser again - Instances could get dropped due to long response times or rate-limiting issues, so depending on the time you search you may get different results on the Community Browser.

So lemmy uses ActivityPub, right? But can it connect with mastodon or gnu social that also use it?

Is there any phone app for Lemmy? Or would it be different websites for different Lemmy worlds?

Can one send a PRivate message to another user?

Hi, thanks for the post. I migrated here immediately after Boost started not working well any more.

How can I mark posts as read, without having to open them?

What does "Subscribe Pending" mean?

I clicked the Subscribe button on !guildwars2@lemmy.ml but I get that yellow pending button instead of the green "joined". Is it because of the heavy load?

Not a big problem, I can read and post there, but I was curious.

Helpfull!

Thank you for this guide! Helped me alot!

Are there any more guides for Moderators and about editing communities? e.g. can images and banners be edited after creation? Where exactly are the mod tools options to found as a moderator? I'm very new to this and there is very little that is obvious to me.
This basic guide is very helpful but where can I find more? thanks in advance

The FediDB site does not list lemmy.worlds hosting location, what country is the site hosted in?

ETA: I'm inclined to think the Netherlands based off of some quick googling, but confirmation would be nice.

This is great, thank you! I plan to send it to a friend - it's much better than any explanation that I could come up with.

On Reddit subreddits are self moderated. Are communities on Lemmy self moderated or does all moderation happen at the instance level?

Is there some way to stop Lemmy from refreshing under my nose. I'm trying to click a link, or read one and it just scrolls away.

What is the difference between Lemmy ML and WORLD?

Great initiative!

Hi, thanks for making this instance and post! I think one of the main things that prevented me from grasping the fediverse when I tried mastodon out earlier was not knowing about the common Activitypub protocol. The e-mail analogy that was being used didn't quite click for me, so I'm happy to have a much better understanding for this go around! Here's to greener pastures!

this is great, thanks for this - going to have a good read through over the blackout for the next few days

The part that was confusing to me is even if I choose “All” when searching for communities, it doesn’t find communities I know exist on other instances. This post helped clear it up for me (I have to search for it by link to add it), so thanks! I am worried this is going to trip up a lot of people though.

Frankly I’ve been looking for a while now and I can’t figure out how to subscribe to a community?

Thanks for making this post! It answered a lot of my questions, but I still have a few more. So I made my account with this server, Lemmy.world, and I can connect with any other server/community I want to with this account. Awesome. What happens though if this server were to be taken offline? Would my account still exist? Is there anything that would be lost aside from the content on this server?

So I’m a total newbie to this whole thing, and I’m sure I’m just being stupid, but I’m running into a weird problem. There’s a community on feddit.de that I’d like to participate in (!germany@feddit.de), and I found it successfully in the lemmy.world search, but when I go in via the search result, it doesn’t show any content. However going to the community directly on via the URL — https://feddit.de/c/germany — I see a post with a bunch of comments.

Is there something I’m missing here? I can subscribe and post via lemmy.world but it seems like I’m the only one in the community.

Thanks all! I’m really looking forward to getting a handle on this…

What does pending subscribe mean?

What does create remote post or comment mean? Does this mean we can post onreddit from here or something?

goodbye reddit, hello lemmy!

What is the ideal resolution for a community banner so as not to unnecessarily 'weigh it down' with a super high-resolution image?

Would it be an idea to add the alternative interfaces in this post?

New users: this instance is too large, please join a smaller instance.

please add turkish language

I'm a dev interested in getting involved. I've followed on GitHub and I'm about to start diving into the various repos. Where is development being coordinated?

If it’s federated, how does or can it integrate with Mastodon? Did I make a mistake by creating a separate login?

Is this server going to keep its federation blocklist empty? I am likely going to move here from another instance because they have defederated a few servers now

Is there any concern about posts going viral and spiking bandwidth cost? Kind of a 'victim of my own success' kinda thing. Also, I could imagine a bad actor DDoS-ing an instance just to drive up network costs.

Thanks for this post, @ruud@lemmy.world. I’ve setup my own instance and am enjoying the lemmy experience so far.

At least the latest RC cut the post and save time in half, for me. That’s a measurable improvement. It definitely must be due to server load, as posting and saving to !lemmyworld@lemmy.world from my instance seems pretty snappy.

So as I understand it, communities are the equivalent of subreddits, is it possible to create a private community? One accessible only by members? Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis are part of a private sub.

Just made a community, how do I make it searchable for people in other instances aside from lemmy.world?

Is Lemmy.world in the US?

Is there a way to collapse this post or hide it now that I’ve read it? It seems to be the first post in my feed, always.

Is Lemmy.world based on the US?

So if an instance 'defederates' another instance, it effectively means all content from them is blocked while using the instance which defederated them?

I am unable to create a community. The thing just keeps spinning and doesn't do anything. Trying to get things sorted out here to get my users to transfer from reddit ultimately.

Hi,

I noticed that thumbnails of links are not showing here https://lemmy.world/c/world, whereas same news link posted on https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews is working fine, why is that?

Here is an example of the same news link on both communities:

https://lemmy.world/post/260407 (no thumbnail)

https://lemmy.ml/post/1317159 (with thumbnail)

Thanks