Before reddit goes dark on Monday, I would like to add a short video to the join-lemmy.org [http://join-lemmy.org] site that shows new users how to create a lemmy account and subscribe to (remote) communities. The video should be about 2-minutes long (shorter is better) with a screen recording and v...
Before reddit goes dark on Monday, I would like to add a short video to the join-lemmy.org site that shows new users how to create a lemmy account and subscribe to (remote) communities.
The video should be about 2-minutes long (shorter is better) with a screen recording and voiceover narration. If you do this, you'll get a lot of traffic to your youtube/peertube account ;)
Here's the outline of the video requested:
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Mention that lemmy is a federated reddit alterntaive based on ActivityPub where 'subreddits' are called 'communities'. Go to
join-lemmy.orgin your web browser and click the bigJoin a Serverbutton. -
Tell the viewer that it doesn't really matter which instance they pick because you can subscribe to a 'community' from one instance from any other instance. Again reiterate that what reddit calls a 'subreddit' is called a 'community' on lemmy. Then just click
Joinfrom a random server from the "Recommended" list of instances. Tell the user to just pick one at random because it doesn't matter which they choose. -
Signup for an account. Tell the user they may need to wait for the account to be approved.
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Try logging-in. Wait some hours (for approval), if needed. Login to the account.
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Show the UI for ~10 seconds, then tell the user that they can browse all communities using the "Lemmy Commnity Browser" run by Feddit. Again, reiterate that what used to be called ‘subreddits’ in reddit are called ‘communities’ on lemmy, and that each lemmy instance can have many communities. Open a new browser tab going to
https://browse.feddit.de/. -
On
https://browse.feddit.de/, search for some popular community (egdocumentaries) and then click the link. For the purposes of this video demo, make sure you select a “remote” community that’s hosted on an instance that’s distinct from where the user signed-up. -
Tell the user that there's three ways to subscribe to a remote instance: [1] Search by remote URL, [2] Search by shorthand identifier, or [3] Manually construct the URL for your instance to their instance
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Show copying & pasting the URL of the remote community (eg
https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) into the search field of their own community, and then clicking on the result. -
Show copying & pasting the shorthand identifier for the remote community (eg
!documentaries@lemmy.ml) into the search field of their own community, and then clicking the result. -
Open a new tab, and show how to manually construct the URL for the remote community in their own instance's site (eg
https:///c/documentaries@lemmy.ml) and load this page in the browser. Then click theSubscribebutton -
Tell the user that after they've subscribed to a bunch of communities, they can click the logo of their instance on the top-left of the UI to return to the Home Page of their instance. Then they can click the "Subscribed" tab to view posts to all the communities they subscribed to across the entire fediverse.
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Show the changing of the sort from 'Active' to 'New' and 'Top'.
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Tell the user that for more information on how to use Lemmy, they can read the documentation at
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/or post questions to the Lemmy community on lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmyor!lemmy@lemmy.ml) that’s moderated by the lemmy developers.
Bonus: Tell that there's an iOS and Android app and show a quick ~5 seconds browsing in one or both.
I'm crowdsourcing this because I'm not much of a video creator, but I think this would be an incredibly useful resource to new lemmy users. And I can tell you that, if you make this video, it will drive a ton of traffic to your channel ;)
Can anyone with some video production skills help-out new lemmy users by making this short video? If you upload this to YouTube, please make sure you mark the license as Creative Commons CC-BY-SA so that we can add it to documentation and share it as widely as possible :)
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We just published our #WarrantCanary for 2023 H2 🕵️
https://buskill.in/canary-006/
Warrant Canaries are a means for us to (not) inform you of (not being) breached if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order) #infosec
It doesn't say porn, it says adult. The legend describes how it's determined
Adult "Yes" means there's no profanity filters or blocking of NSFW content. "No" means that there are profanity filters or NSFW content is not allowed.
how do you do that? Is there a guide anywhere for how to setup mastodon seeing lemmy or lemmy seeing mastodon?
I think at the top, just above the "Recommended" <h2> add:
For a more detailed comparison of Lemmy instances, see:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances">Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://the-federation.info/platform/73">the-federation.info Lemmy Instances Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lemmymap.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmymap</a></li>
</ul>
After you create an account, you can find communites across all instances using <a href="https://browse.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmy Community Browser</a>
<h2>Recommended</h2>
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I see TypeScript and get scared. Personally, I do think that the join-lemmy.org/instances page should link to:
- My table comparison https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
- The Lemmy Community Browser (to find communities across all instances) https://browse.feddit.de/
- The Lemmy Map https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
- The federation's lemmy page (with another table comparing instances) https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Can anyone with TypeScript experience make this PR for us? Here's the relevant file:
Comparison of different Lemmy Instances. Contribute to maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances development by creating an account on GitHub.
I created a repo on GitHub that has a table comparing all the known lemmy instances
- https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
Why?
When I joined lemmy, I had to join a few different instances before I realized that:
- Some instances didn't allow you to create new communities
- Some instances were setup with an
allowlistso that you couldn't subscribe/participate with communities on (most) other instances - Some instances disabled important features like downvotes
- Some instances have profanity filters or don't allow NSFW content
I couldn't find an easy way to see how each instance was configured, so I used lemmy-stats-crawler and GitHub actions to discover all the Lemmy Instances, query their API, and dump the information into a data table for quick at-a-glance comparison.
I hope this helps others with a smooth migration to lemmy. Enjoy :)
Hi Lemmy!
I make BusKill laptop kill cords that make your computer lock, shutdown, or self-destruct if the device is physically separated from you.
This protects your (encrypted) data from theft, which can be useful for digital nomads and cryptotraders working in cafes/coworking spaces. But our target audience is journalists, activists, and human rights workers in oppressive regimes.
Both the hardware and the software are open-source (CC-BY-SA, GPLv3). We manufacture the hardware with injection molding, but if you have a 3D-printer, then you can take a stab at our 3D-printable prototype.
...And apparently I'm doing (minor) contributions to lemmy these days too
Update on our progress on the 3D-printable BusKill prototype, a DIY USB kill cord to protect your laptop's data from thieves.
This article is about a new 3d-printable prototype version of the BusKill cable.
The BusKill cable is a laptop kill cord. If you're still struggling to understand what is a BusKill cable and why you'd need a laptop kill cord, there's a 2-minute explainer video that makes this clear:
- https://www.buskill.in/#demo
Enjoy and happy printing :)
