Hello World!

The last week or so we have seen quite a big ‘boost’ in the amount of new users signing up so we thought it would be a good time to highlight some things that are of interest to new users.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Lemmy World is not a free speech instance, there are a couple of ground rules that need to be followed. If you’re new, I would advise you to read our Code of Conduct.

NEW USER QUESTIONS

If you are new to the fediverse as a whole, it might all be a bit overwhelming. What is Lemmy? What is federation? What even is an instance? For those questions I would suggest you have a look at the getting starting guide. It should cover most of your questions.

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?

You can head over to the [email protected] community. This community should be used for questions regarding Lemmy World and is not the support community for the Lemmy software this site uses.

Our Admin @quinten recently made a post covering the most recurring questions there too. Read about that here.

ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES

Lemmy World hosts a few custom User Interfaces which give you a completely different experience both on the desktop as on mobile.

THIRD PARTY APPS

There are a lot of Third Party apps available for Lemmy. From Paid to Open Source, you will find something that suits you easily.

For a complete list of apps have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ (Thanks [email protected]).

EDIT: Updated the apps list. Also some more interesting links in @[email protected]’s post here: https://lemmy.world/comment/3962001

EDIT 2: Instead of https://photon.lemmy.world you can now just go to https://p.lemmy.world. You can thank @[email protected] laziness for that.

  • freamon
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    21 year ago

    I tend to use photon.lemmy.world, but it’d be really cool if I could log in to lemmy.world using tesseract. It’s a fork of Photon - so I imagine it also has feature-parity with the official UI - but it’s “designed for media-rich feeds and content”. It’s what they use at dubvee, and db0 also provides it as an alternative

    I don’t use the default one because it gets confused when lemmy decides to bring a gif in from an external site, and then convert it to a mp4 (it’s a pretty hit-and-miss affair in the Gifs Community), though I realise it’s ultimately lemmy itself that’s causing the problem.

    • Xylight (photon dev)
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      21 year ago

      Videos aren’t played inline for reasons I’ll make a sticky about in the photon community.

      However, when you open a post page, it’ll play a video if it detects it.

    • CommunityLinkFixerBotB
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      11 year ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]