Signing up
Pick an interface. Do you prefer to browse Reddit with:
- apollo: try https://wefwef.app
- old.reddit.com: try https://lemmy.world
- reddit.com: try https://kbin.social
Flip a coin, pick an instance. Are you:
- indecisive: use https://lemmy.world
- decisive: see https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
- using https://kbin.social: you already have an instance
Building momentuum
- Jumpstart your subscription list using https://redditmigration.com
- Try commenting or posting. Just try it! Many people who stopped engaging on reddit find the community more rewarding here.
- Try sticking with Lemmy / Kbin for a few days. Until your fingers learn to get their fix a new way, and you get your subscription list built up a bit.
What next?
Many people are happy at this point… but what to do if you want to help the switch to fediverse but you’re still jonesing for reddit after a few days? A few ideas….
- Its OK! Reddit simply has more volume and a bigger stack of communities as of Jun 30, 2023. Its /probably/ (?) not going to disappear overnight. Its not an either/or, you can use lemmy / kbin more and more over time.
- Start your internet browsing time on lemmy / kbin first. If you’re “still hungry”, supplement with reddit.
- Consider instituting a “read only reddit” policy: no posts, comments, or upvotes. Its MUCH easier to stop adding to Reddit than it is to quit cold turkey. If you don’t like reddit’s behavior, this is a good way to collectively switch momentum toward the fediverse without making big personal sacrifices.
Might be a stupid question, but I iust signed up for lemmy.world today and wanted to add some communities from the migration list here. The equivalent of r/anarchychess is listed as https://sopuli.xyz/c/anarchychess and on my first visit to that site I couldn’t really figure out how to subscribe… in this case sopuli would be the hosting instance if I understand. Do I need a sopuli account to subscribe and just add that account to my lemmy app? Or did I just not find the right option?
Noob here too.
I don’t think you need another account on the separate instance as long as it’s federated to lemmy.world
I think you need to subscribe to the following
https://lemmy.world/c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
source of my info https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2212
The best way to link communities is like this:
!anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
You should be able to click that :)
You can also just do a search for it and it should pop up.
I don’t think you can link communities like that ? Or maybe it’s only supported in some clients / instances. My understanding is that you need to link them by using the usual markdown link syntax (or the link button below the editor) and input /c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz as the link target.
Like this:
[anarchychess](/c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz)Which will render like this:
anarchychess
Note however that I’ve had some problems with this previously. I suspect that the first time someone tries to access a remote community from whatever instance you’re on, your instance runs some heavy API queries which are prone to failure if either instance is under heavy load.
Your instance is pretty outdated. Most have updated to 0.18, while you’re still on 0.17.3
In 0.18 you can just type !community@instance and it will automatically link it and keep you on your own instance
Neat, good to know!
Use the web interface and search for either:
!community@server.name
Or
The full url like you linked it.
Be patient, if it’s a community that’s new to your server it may take a couple minutes to find it.
I say to use the web interface because all the apps are rather immature and inconsistent in their handling of this.
I’ve only just signed up for Lemmy myself, but it looks like you can access federated communites with URLs like https://lemmy.world/c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
There’s probably a more ergonomic way to get there than manually constructing the URL though!
Search for !community@server or the original url.
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I figured it out I think! The problem was that the link basically opened in a browser, and the browser has no idea what my Lemmy.world login is. My Lemmy App (Connect) has a search bar on the left side where I had to enter the community name and choose the right instance. IE there were 3 different Anarchychess communities with the same name, but the Sopuli instance was the “right” one. Going to the page trough the search bar allowed me to subscribe like I wanted.
Yeah there’s lots of competing communities with similar or the same name. Usually picking the most active one will be the best bet. One will win and become the default just give it a little time
Or subscribe to both and get double dosage of fun.