Quick start guide
Quick start guide
Account
You can use your account you created to log in to the server on which you created it. Not on other servers. Content is federated to other servers, users/accounts are not.
Searching
In the top menu, you’ll see the search icon. There, you can search for posts, communities etc.
You can just enter a search-word and it will find the Post-titles, post-content, communities etc containing that word that the server knows of. So any content any user of this server ever interacted with.
You can also search for a community by it’s link, e.g. [email protected]. Even if the server hasn’t ever seen that community, it will look it up remotely. Sometimes it takes some time for it to fetch the info (and displays ‘No results’ meanwhile…) so just be patient and search a second time after a few seconds.
Creating communities
First, make sure the community doesn’t already exist. Use search (see above). Also try https://lemmyverse.net/communities to see if there are remote communities on other Lemmy instances that aren’t known to Lemmy.world yet.
If you’re sure it doesn’t exist yet, go to the homepage and click ‘Create a Community’.
It will open up the following page:
Here you can fill out:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Name | should be all lowercase letters. This will be the /c/ |
| Display name | As to be expected, this will be the displayed name. |
| Icon | Icon for your community |
| Banner | Banner for your community |
| Sidebar | The sidebar should contain things like description, rules, links etc. You can use Markdown (yey!) |
| NSFW | If the community will contain mainly NSFW content, check the NSFW mark. NSFW is allowed as long as it doesn’t break the rules |
| Only Moderators... | If you only want moderators to be able to post, check that checkbox. |
| Language | Select any language you want people to be able to post in. You shouldn’t de-select ‘Undetermined’. |
Reading
I think the reading is obvious. Just click the post and you can read it. Sometimes when there are many comments, they will partly be collapsed.
Posting
When viewing a community, you can create a new post in it. First of all make sure to check the community’s rules, probably stated in the sidebar.
In the Create Post page these are the fields:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| URL | Here you can paste a link (or add a photo) which will be shown at the top of the post. Also the thumbnail of the post will link there. |
| Title | The title of the post. |
| Body | Here you can type your post. You can use Markdown if you want. |
| Community | select the community where you want this post created, defaults to the community you were in when you clicked ‘create post’ |
| NSFW | Select this if you post any NSFW material, this blurs the thumbnail and displays ‘NSFW’ behind the post title. |
| Language | Specify in which language your post is. |
Also see the Lemmy documentation on formatting etc.
Commenting
Moderating / Reporting
Client apps
There are some apps available or in testing. See this post for a list!
Issues
When you find any issue, please report so here: https://lemmy.world/post/15786 if you think it’s server related (or not sure).
Report any issues or improvement requests for the Lemmy software itself here: https://github.com/LemmyNet
Known issues
Known issues can be found in the beforementioned post, one of the most annoying ones is the fact that post/reply in a somewhat larger community can take up to 10 seconds. It seems like that’s related to the number of subscribers of the community.
I’ll be looking into that one, and hope the devs are too.