You may be new to Lemmy and wondering what it’s all about.
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Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, a network of interconnected social media platforms. Lemmy is intended to work like Reddit, but instead of one central site, there is no central site. Instead, there are many different sites (nodes) that talk to each other.
Think of this like email. No one “owns” email. Instead, there are many email servers. Some are large, like Gmail. Some are smaller, like the email server that runs email at your work. And some people run their own email server, just for themselves.
Even though there are many different sites providing email, it does not matter which one you pick. For the most part, any email provider you choose can email any other.
Federated sites work the same way. Lemmy.nz is one site, Lemmy.ml is another. Beehaw.org is yet another. There are many different Lemmy sites, large and small. All these sites have their own users, they have their own communities (subreddits), and they all connect to each other. If you want to view posts on asklemmy on Lemmy.ml, you can subscribe. It doesn’t matter which server you signed up to. You can comment on posts, upvote posts, the whole shebang. Regardless of which server you signed up to, you can seamlessly interact with posts, comments, and upvotes across the entire network.
Hopefully this answers more questions than it raises, but really it could go either way. Reply to this post if you have questions (regardless of which server you signed up to).
Sorry I don’t use iOS, but in theory it should be no different than any other instance. Hopefully someone else can comment on their success ( or lack of).
But was there an error message? Did you write the server in full (i.e. https://lemmy.nz) or did you just write “lemmy.nz”? Whichever you tried, maybe try the other?
I’m thinking it might be an iOS thing now - I can’t even login via a web browser on my phone :P
But yeah I tried all of the combinations.
Looks like they’ve had issues with lemmy-ui before based on the GitHub issues. I will await fixes and just comment/post while on Windows :D
The web frontend uses websockets to connect to the API, which can fail to connect. If that happens, the page will load but things like logging in won’t work.
I’m not sure why that would affect an app though, which calls the API itself. Unless the API itself wasn’t working, but it is because it works for everyone else!
It’s a shame no one else has responded, it would be good to know if it’s a problem only for you, or for others as well.