With spez ascending the last few remaining levels of becoming an absolute wanker, it’s about time I got more active and I have been wondering how should I be using Lemmy efficiently? Like many I migrated from Reddit and I was primarly using Apollo to browse through my subscribed subreddits.

Over here on Lemmy.one, I have subscribed to communities and I scroll through my feed by sorting “All > Top Day” because sorting “All > Hot” means I end up seeing the same threads.

Then earlier today I discovered https://beehaw.org/communities where I found many communities I would love to subscribe to but then I got confused because I am also subscribed to more or less similar communities on lemmy.one.

I think I am sort of struggling to wrap my head around how lemmy really works and where I should be hanging out. It was easier on reddit in the sense that if I wanted to go LOTRmemes, there was only subreddit but here on Lemmy, there seem to be multiple instances of the same community :D

To top it off, it is proving hard to login to beehaw [probably the server is under stress] with the same details I use to login into Lemmy.one.

Not to forget there’s also Kbin which I haven’t even begun exploring. Phew.

ps - my apologies if I am sounding slightly incoherent as this is all new to me. If there is anyone out there who has this all figured out, I’d appreciate any help here.

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Isn’t lemmy.one and beehaw still federating? Why did you make a second account on beehaw? Same for kbin, what do you mean you are not exploring it? All the content on kbin is accessible from lemmy.one.

    If you have an account on one instance, you’re already able to access all the content of all other instances. (That federate with yours) That includes kbin. Kbin’s content is already in your “all” feed, and you’re already exploring it.

    • Admiral Muffin@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I havent made a second account at all. On the contrary, I was trying to login using the same account. The thing I was and am still clueless about is how I can go about accessing Kbin with the same account created on Lemmy. I didnt even know that until you said it here. Lol

      • MentalEdgeEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        That’s not how it works, you’ll always access everything from a url that begins with “lemmy.one”.

        If you aren’t, you need to flip it around, for example:

        beehaw.org/c/news becomes lemmy.one/c/news@beehaw.org

        Same goes for kbin, to access kbin “magazines” the url would be something like: lemmy.one/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

        Of course, you don’t actually have to manually edit stuff in the address bar, most of the time, you’ll just seamlessly see “outside” communities in your feed, and be able to click them and open them. You probably have been without realizing. You posted this in a community thats from lemmy.ml.

        Also, if editing the url doesn’t work, you can also paste a url to a community into search, in your instance (even a url for other instances), to make your instance look it up for you.

    • Hyperreality@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yep. I’m currently replying to your comment from kbin.

      It’s possible that OP doesn’t realise they’re seeing kbin content and users.