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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/86720

Created as a sticky post for my community. [email protected]

📄 Documentation, guides and FAQs:

• Official detailed documentation
• Quick start (ELI5 type) guide to Lemmy and Kbin by @[email protected]
• Basic information and new user guide by @[email protected]
• Beginner guide / FAQ by @[email protected]
• Lemmy FAQ / guide by @[email protected]
• Beginner's Guide for Redditors

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📱 Mobile apps:

App Name	Platform	OS	Stage	Community Link	Code Link
Artemis (Kmoon)	Kbin, Lemmy (Upcoming)	Android, IOS	Private Beta (Starts end of June)	Kbin.social	Soon
Beyond	Lemmy	Android, IOS	In Progress
Connect	Lemmy	Android	Google Play	Beehaw post
Jerboa	Lemmy	Android	Google Play, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid	lemmy.ml	Github
Lemmynade (Lemmur fork)	Lemmy	Android, IOS	In development	Bigfoot Ninja	Github
Limbo	Lemmy	IOS	Testflight	lemmy.world	Soon
Memmy	Lemmy	Android, IOS	Testflight	lemmy.world	Github
Mlem	Lemmy	IOS	Beta, removed from Testflight, lead dev stepped down	lemmy.world	Github
Morpha	Lemmy	Android, IOS	No releases yet	vlemmy.net	Gitlab
Slide	Lemmy	Android	Under development	Post on lemmy.world	Github
Summit	Lemmy	Android	Google Play, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid	lemmy.world
Sync	Lemmy	Android	Research. Patreon	lemmy.world
Thunder	Lemmy	Android, IOS	Testflight & IzzySoft	lemmy.world	Github
wefwef	Lemmy	WebApp	Alpha	lemmy.world	Github

Data taken from the google spreadsheet (by @[email protected])

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🌐 Useful sites:

Instance and community explorers:

• join-lemmy.org/instances - Official instance list (by Lemmy)
• Awesome Lemmy Instances - Comparison of Lemmy instances (by @[email protected])
• browse.feddit.de - Community browser (by feddit.de)
• lemmyverse.net - Instances and community browser (by @[email protected])
• browse.toast.ooo - Community browser (by @[email protected])
• lemmies.blue42.net - Directory of Lemmy instances and communities (by @[email protected])
• sub.rehab - Site that trackes where Reddit communities migrated to

Stats:

• lemmy.fediverse.observer - Stats, maps, graphs for Lemmy
• the-federation.info - Stats and charts for Lemmy and individual instances
• fedidb.org - Detailed stats and info about Lemmy and instances

Search engines:

• fedi-search.com - Search the most popular instances of Kbin and Lemmy (by @[email protected])

Miscellaneous:

• lemmymap.feddit.de - Federation map (by feddit.de)

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🎨 Custom CSS Themes / UI Tweaks for Lemmy:

Best place for finding CSS styles: userstyles.world

Some by Lemmy community:

• https://lemmy.world/post/100974
• https://sh.itjust.works/post/53395
• https://beehaw.org/post/528075
• https://sh.itjust.works/post/96376

Place to find more: [email protected] | Fetch

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🌍 Useful communities:

Links should open in your local instance. If you get couldnt_find_community, click Fetch first.

About Lemmy:

• [email protected] | Fetch - Lemmy announcements
• [email protected] | Fetch - Support / questions about Lemmy.

Promote(new) communities:

• [email protected] | Fetch - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
• [email protected] | Fetch - An aid to new Community discovery. Find an interesting new Lemmy/Kbin etc. community? Post about it here for fame and fortune (fame and fortune not guaranteed)
• [email protected] | Fetch - Promote your fav community here.
• [email protected] | Fetch - A community to find other communities in any of the Lemmy instances.

Miscellaneous:

• [email protected] | Fetch - A general repository for user scripts and plugins used to enhance the Lemmy browsing experience.

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Suggestions are welcome.

doubling back through our log, Gaywallet has also chipped in a few hundred approvals today. thank you for your continued patience

I sell stuff on eBay and FB marketplace. In the vein of platforms that you love to hate. What would it take to build software on the fediverse for the purpose of selling things?

My friend and I went on a five hour hike today. I had a great time hiking, but I think I enjoyed getting home and sitting down almost as much. The feeling of all of my sore muscles melting as my whole body sighed with relief was fantastic.

With the recent news that the r/blind community has migrated to a lemmy instance, I thought now would be a good time to post a quick PSA on image descriptions.

Blind and low vision computer users often rely on screen readers to navigate their computers and the internet. These tools work great on text-based platforms (when the backend is coded correctly to make buttons and UI elements visible to the screen reader), but they struggle a lot with images. OCR and image recognition have come a long way, but they're still not reliable.

On Lemmy, there's no way (yet) to add alt text to image posts, but one thing that we sighted folk can do to make the website a more accessible place for the blind/low vision community is to describe the contents of the image in text, so screen readers (or braille displays) can interpret the text for the user. This doesn't need to be anything fancy - you can see an example of me doing so in this post here - simply indicate somewhere that you are describing the contents of the image, and then do so in text. If you're transcribing text, it's best to do so as exact to the text in the image as you can (including spelling errors!). If you're describing something visual, it's best to keep it about the length of a tweet, but be as detailed as you need to be to give context to what you write about in the post.

If you'd like a more detailed guide on how to best do image descriptions and alt text, here's a site that describes more specifics - https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

Edit: You might be able to add alt text to embedded images, as noted by @[email protected] here. This would only work for images within the text of your comment, not for image posts (topics which link to images).

once again speaking for myself here, except where these sentiments have already been expressed by other admins. this is not a moderator document or anything, and it will not be stickied.

we have a ton of new people thanks to clearing a lot of our queue and i'm already seeing a bunch of the same issues we had to quash a week/two weeks ago with the first big influx. so, to reiterate:

we (the Admins) are four people, only two of which have actual experience running or maintaining anything in the same universe of what we're managing now. running this instance is not--and cannot be--a full time job for any of us and our insistence is that it doesn't become one. full-time working on this site would be financially and socially ruinous. if just us four admins were being paid a fair wage for the work we do, our Open Collective would barely cover the last two weeks. in any case we are not the only people working on this site and worthy of being paid.

we cannot currently (and may not in the future either, to be honest with you) accommodate a lot of what you might think we're able to do, or expect because Reddit had it either through an app or the base function of the site. this is moderationally, federationally, and technically. neither i nor the other admins have the requisite experience with coding to contribute to the site, and we already have a ton of bug fixes to wrangle that have given our volunteer sysops fits. most of your issues are probably caused by and better referred to Lemmy itself than to Beehaw itself. i would strongly encourage you also post them to either [email protected] or the software's GitHub if you think it's a general functionality problem. in general: we cannot refer your issues elsewhere right now, you will need to do that yourself.

Lemmy, i want to stress again, has very limited base functionalities, many of which our admins and sysops are trying to work around. those constrain us in what we can do or how. a lot of options we have at our disposal to make stuff run are binary, and a lot of the not-binary options are confusing. we have had to hack around a lot of these while waiting on permanent solutions in Lemmy itself. this is our current list of moderator functionalities we'd like to see.

we also cannot be perfect, and if you're expecting perfect then i don't know what to tell you. you are on what is basically beta software, being hosted and supported by volunteers. right now, we absolutely and simply cannot promise much of anything past "the site is online and moderated in accordance with our values." if you can't hang with that caveat i would strongly encourage you to please go somewhere else, for your own sake.

In recent days I have seen these two arguments repeated quite commonly. From reddits side it was all about how "noones using Lemmy anyway"

While from Lemmy it was "how numbers have been exploding"

My question is, why do numbers of users matter so much to anyone really? Isnt activity what matters more?

On two questions here I gotten just as much engagement if not more than anything I did on reddit combined

submitting this in chat because i truly do not know where else to put this link. could you live here? i fucking couldn't, jesus. anyways, a bit of context:

[...]London-based Artist Mr Doodle spent two years doodling the interior and exterior of his house, documenting the entire process along the way.

the submission video covers the end-product, and you can see the video of the process here:

https://youtu.be/f7ke3HznCCo

When someone posts something on a server he joined, the post doesn't appear directly on the community from another instance. Why is that?

See how they massacred my boi:

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Doesn't really matter obv, more funny because it's like Lenny devolved. His face is all squishy. (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

For anime there's not really activity for episode or Manga chapter discussions, and found that the My Anime List forums ended up filling that void. https://myanimelist.net/forum/

For buildapc checked out pcpartpicker and found they had a forum with people to help and being pcpartpicker the layout of parts is really nice when people suggest them to you https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/forum/27-create-a-part-list-for-me/

For more casual stuff like pics and memes found squabbles has pretty good activity https://squabbles.io/

For NBA stuff found realgm forums with lot more activity for individual team boards https://forums.realgm.com/boards/

For video game deals found this forum https://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/10-video-game-deals/

It was nice that forums are still alive once I finally tried to seek out communities outside of reddit after all these years

Hey, look at you.

In case you find yourself missing the layout of old.reddit…

(Just- migrated this instance over to kubernetes.... just testing federation...)

Spoilers, obviously! I just wanted to talk about it a little bit

I know there a mix of love and hate around it but is it posible to make a comic/manga or something using mostly free ai tools. i cant draw really anyhting but stickmen and ai i find cool but my pc is low end-ish so i cant run locally ai, are there any free ones or software/things needed to test some things out.

or should i just learn to draw, becasue i am going thru some though times in my life once again so im not sure but im also bored, so theres that.

i'm on break for now but we're finally able to dedicate lots of time to this without worrying about email issues, so i've gotten back to quite a lot of people today. i'm out to about 12 days of registrations, currently, and i think i'll be able to process at least 100-200 more people today.

thanks for your patience in waiting for approval folks

I've only made two posts so far, but everyone has given legitimate and intelligent responses to both. It's made me realize how not used to that I had become. It's an overwhelming positive feeling to not be nervous about sharing with this community. Thank you to all of you

How do you guys celebrate personal wins while being sensitive to those in your circles who might struggle with that area?

For example, posting your ab gains when friends struggle with weight loss, posting about children when friends struggle with fertility, posting about your WFH gig when friends are working 70 hour weeks.

I stopped drinking on the 18th of March 2023. Because of where I live and how my culture socialises, this was a huge step. But to be honest, in hindsight it was just something I'd been putting off for a long time. The hangovers did just become a nightmare to deal with, plus I didn't feel like I was doing well with my personal relationships because of it. I'm glad to have all that time back, although I miss part of the social aspect. I'm working on creating a sober social life but it's very early days.

How has your sobriety journey been for you?

I absolutely loved using r/stopdrinking as a resource. Now that I'm not on reddit so much I'd love to find a new community here! Has anyone created a sobriety community on the fediverse yet?