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Hey everyone. One of my primary activities on Reddit was watching videos in one way or another. I used to use RES on desktop and Sync for android, both of those had embedded video players. It's a very tiny feature but I miss it, is there anything like that for Lemmy yet?
Same goes for gifs, I haven't really seen any moving pictures on here lol
Can someone explain a little bit about how federation works? Can I log into other Lemmy servers using my lemmy.ca login? Also can I create communities that exist across multiple servers?
Thanks for the welcome! Lemmy sure is a bit different, but a distributed approach feels like the right way. I guess you could call me a digg and a reddit refugee since I'm pretty much done with both of those.
I'm an old tech dude these days, I guess. But I know a good bit of new tech too.
Thanks to the host!
Hello! And thank you for hosting!
I'm still finding my way around and I've kind of figured out the remote subscribing thing...but there are some communities that I cannot see in the search despite knowing that they are there (if I visit the other instance directly). I've seen posts where people say to just do a search for that community and it will get indexed on your instance, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.
For example: /c/[email protected] is a valid community over on beehaw, but I can't subscribe to it by searching it here (or by going to the extended URL myself) and despite having tried several times to do the search, it just isn't indexing for me to be able to subscribe to it.
EDIT: I have now been able to get it added. Beehaw was probably just overwhelmed this morning. Thanks all for the help.
Hello there. I've been dabbling a bit on sites to escape reddit and that retard spez. I am currently trying this, said it, scored and poal. I'm hoping I can find a new place to enjoy. My main concern is the hobby subs may not compare well to those I used on reddit.
I just signed up tonight. I tried to log in about an hour after signing up, and it worked. Now I have to see whether I can find a community that lives elsewhere on lemmy.
Aloha. I see that "mamot.fr" is a linked instance here. Can I subscribe here, to something like mamot.fr/@pluralistic?
unfortunately not. I too enjoy Cory's writings. I think that following users might be a planned feature?
mastodon users can post/comment on stuff at lemmy however.
Hello Lemmians... Lemmites? Lemmons?
What's the preferred nomenclature for the denizens of this site?
Any reason why my front page is mostly posts from a week ago, regardless of whether i set it to "Hot" or "Active"?
Top of the Day or New seem to be the best options right now. Top of the Day should return new posts with lots of activity, while New will often return posts that don't yet have comments.
Can somebody explain to me why this is "Canadian Server, run by Canadians"... but located in the Netherlands?
Edit: thanks for the informative responses!
Hello everyone. It's nice to meet everyone, it's so warm here. You may call me Lenny since it's the real nickname of mine people have started referring to me as. I'm a 23-year-old woman from Vermont who works for a reporting place (sort of) and likes art and cryptography. I'm on both Lemmy and Reddit but Lemmy has truly grown on me. Thanks for having me here, and feel free to ask questions.
This is fantastic; thank you for hosting this instance. I was more of a Reddit lurker but intend to be more active on this federated platform to help the community build. Having lurked a bit before registering I have to say that I hope the community vibe stays the same as it seems less toxic so far than a lot of the Reddit communities.
Hello! I have a question. In the settings, there’s this thing called the Matrix User. What is it for/What does it do, and would it be useful to make a Matrix account?
Seems to work. 👏
Why do other some communities I'm subbed to when viewing through lemmy.ca show no posts, no users, etc?
Like if I view [email protected] through lemmy.ca, it shows no posts.
Hey again, been a while since I posted in this thread! Was hoping to clarify a bit on the Lemmy.ca rules if I could. I have two questions:
I ask these questions as I moderate !roadcam which could have both of these sorts of content posted to it, if not often. I am unsure if I want to ban that content outright, but it would be handy to know the instance rules first.