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?

  • jimmyjazx@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If i understand correctly-You can subscribe to communities on other instances and that pulls them into your subscriber feed and the “all” feed of anyone else on your instance. but you need to join one to get the full “local” experience of another one. I joined one general instance to curate a subscibe list, and another where I want just that local experience plus I can’t subscribe because admins of my instance block the other.

    • Halasham@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Alight, thank you… but how?

      This isn’t strait-forward to me, it seems like whenever I’m in a tab on a different instance to be able to see a community I’m interested in I’m not logged into my account and can’t see the communities from tabs that are.

      • jimmyjazx@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The best way I’ve found- copy the url of the community you want to join, then go to your home instance, click the 3 bars menu top right, click the spyglass icon search, paste into the search text bar, search, it should provide a link to that community, click on that, then expand the “sidebar” button and click subscribe

        • Halasham@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Thanks, managed to grab the communities I really wanted… and a few more I found in the process!