If you are a new user to Lemmy, the most important thing is to subscribe to lots of communities so you get a nice feed of new posts and comments.

The most popular communities are available under All Communities. Just subscribe to whatever you think seems interesting as a first step.

There are also many more other communities on other instances, and you can subscribe to them from this instance. That is what federation makes possible, and Lemmy is a federated system. It talks to all other instances, gets new posts and comments and shares whatever you post or like as well.

Easiest way to subscribe to a remote community is to use a global community browser like Lemmy Community Browser.

To join a community: click on its name to go to the instance hosting it, and then click Subscribe.

You will get a message box asking you to enter from what instance you want to subscribe:

Enter lemmy.today and click Fetch Community.

Then you have to click Subscribe one more time here, and you will be subscribed. It may take some time for the server to get new posts from the community if nobody else has subscribed to it before.

And thats it. Enjoy lemmy!

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      4·
      3 years ago

      It’s loading now so probably some temporary hickup. That site is not maintained by us at Lemmy.today but it’s been a very good resource to link to so far.

      • Spacellary@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        That site is not maintained by us at Lemmy.today

        All good, I assumed that to be the case, will wait for them to be back up then, thanks for the continuous work @mrmanager, I think what you have here so far is pretty cool. Stay awesome.

        Update: It’s back! XD

  • Walican132@lemmy.today
    2·
    3 years ago

    Hi, I followed these steps and I was able to subscribe to a couple communities. However I wanted to sub to [email protected] and from this instance and the memmy app I’m seeing that it has one subscriber (presumably me?) however clicking into the direct link I can then see the activity. I’m still very new to this, am I missing a step?

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      3·
      3 years ago

      Hi!

      I think you did it right :) But the way Lemmy is designed, it doesn’t copy over historic posts and comments before you subscribed. I had a look at the community over at dormi.zone and there has been only one post since you subscribed, and that one you see here on Lemmy.today. But you won’t see the older ones. New ones will pop up here though.

      It’s a bit confusing, all of this, in the beginning. :)

      Make sure to subscribe to lots of communities since only a few has lots of content, and it can feel like Lemmy is a wasteland otherwise.