I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it’s because I am limited to using the desktop and can’t aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.
I have converted to Lemmy fully now. I deleted my reddit favourites and Relay for Reddit, and just replaced them with Lemmy. Now when I subconciously click where reddit used to be, I get Lemmy instead. It’s helped a lot.
I’m still struggling with some aspects of Lemmy. I’m on a small instance called “Toast.ooo”, and I’d like to subscribe to the starfield community on “Lemmy.zip”, but I just can’t do it. If I try to search for it, it doesn’t appear. If I go direct to Lemmy.zip, I can’t log in to my account.
is this an issue with the federation of lemmy? or do you think this is a one-off for you?
i’m still wrapping my head around it a bit. i signed up on lemmy.world and it was seamless, but i honestly don’t know the scope of lemmy, how far it goes, or if i should have signed up on a different instance.
editing to add: i found this post and thought it might solve your issue? https://lemmy.world/post/335116
I’m the same way. A buddy of mine sent me a blog post that was essentially lemmy and federation for dummies. It helped me get started and I’m also on lemmy.world but not sure where to go from here. I’m down to leave reddit though.
Only need one account and can interact across the fediverse. If there’s a community you like on another instance you can interact with the posts and users there too. An instance is kinda like an email account. We all have our own preferred provider and can send an email to another.
This might help a little too https://fediverse.info/
This might help in finding a good instance; https://the-federation.info/platform/73
I actually tried four before I landed on one I like. First was a matter of latency, in other words finding one close to me with a good ping, then it was a matter of how well I liked the administration.
https://toast.ooo/c/[email protected] should work, seems to be a problem with the toast.ooo instance.
It works on most instances I try.
You could try DMing the Admin there looks like their name is @grant - or pick a more established server that works better
I’ve discovered that you can search for the URL on (for instance) Lemmy.zip but set the search to “All” instead of just Communities.
Although now that I typed that out, I may have had a problem with Lemmy.zip specifically today, Al maybe it’s a them issue?