Welcome!
Due the recent high amount of users coming over from Reddit, many of the existing large Lemmy instances have been struggling to keep up. This instance was created to help spread out the load on the Lemmy network. Lemmy newbies are welcome here.
The goal for lemm.ee is to provide a home Lemmy instance for anybody that needs one. That means that you are more than welcome here even if you mostly intend to just interact with other instances rather than this one!
Note: if you want to start up a new community here, but the name is already taken by an inactive community, then don't worry! Inactive communities can be transferred to new moderators. Please follow the steps outlined in our FAQ under the "How can I take over an inactive community" section.
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a federated link aggregator. This image explains it pretty well! In general, the fact that it's "federated" just means that it works much like e-mail - in the same way as a Gmail user can send e-mails to iCloud Mail users or Outlook users, a lemm.ee user is able to participate in communities on many different Lemmy instances. Regardless of which Lemmy instance your account lives on, you are a part of the federated network and can interact with other users from other instances, so this instance is as good of a place as any other to get started with Lemmy.
If you have any further questions about Lemmy, please check out our guide/FAQ!
About lemm.ee (this instance)
lemm.ee is intended to be a serious long-term instance, not just some random experiment.
You can always find the most up to date rules and general info about lemm.ee in the sidebar on our front page. If you want to know more about how this instance is run, you can check our administration and federation policy.
For some technical background, this instance is operated following industry best practices:
- Our infrastructure is robust and has been built up with redundancy and recoverability in mind
- The servers are running in the cloud (this is not some bedroom server situation!)
- All of the infrastructure is described declaratively as code, which allows relatively quick and safe changes to any part of our infrastructure whenever necessary
- Our entire database is backed up constantly, so in the worst case, we can always restore our data
A significant chunk of funding for this infrastructure comes directly from our amazing community. This support is essential to help secure our future. These supporters deserve the gratitude of all lemm.ee users!
You can read more details about how our instance is funded on this GitHub sponsorships page. There is also a Ko-Fi donations page as a back-up.
Super excited to be here! Any suggestions for building my feed? Do I need to create accounts across multiple instances or can I subscribe to things across all using the search function?
The Search isn't the best, and the links haven't worked all the time but yes, you can search and sub from one account (it could even be a mastodon or kbin account, both of which have better search).
Awesome. I'm using Jerboa and I am pretty happy with it so far! I'm happy to support the development in exchange for some immediate functionality.
Honestly I wish I knew coding cause I'd love to join active development of the fediverse.
I know coding but coders are in high demand and I'm very busy nowadays.
Are kbin and Lemmy just different clients to the same data or completely different beasts sitting in the fediverse?
Just to clarify the answer on this for you, they're different platforms that each have their own content. Lemmy has communities, Kbin calls them magazines. They are two separate things that work in very similar ways.
HOWEVER, if you have a Lemmy account you can sub to and interact with Kbin magazines. If you have a Kbin account you can sub to and interact with Lemmy communities. So it's sort of functionally the same pool of content even though it's two separate things, if that makes sense.
Ah, that makes sense. Not the same data, but each can subscribe to each other's stuff.
The data they work with is technically the same as they use ActivityPub protocol to ensure their interoperability with other software on the Fediverse, the difference is in the way how they work with it
AFAIK kbin was forked from Lemmy and has its own features iirc
Depends how much you will browse. Choose All to get a livelier feed and find new communities. Choose Top Day if you check in just few times a day. Choose new comments, if you'd like to comment and discuss a lot. Choose Subscribed if you're interested only in topics you're ... well ... interested in.
You don't need multiple accounts. That's the feature of Fediverse where every instance talks to each other using the same protocol (ActivityPub) and thus can share content between themselves (you access it by choosing All in your feed). The only scenario where you might want multiple accounts is if there's an instance that is heavily defederated from the rest of the fediverse (like beehaw.org), but that doesn't affect us (lemm.ee).
Awesome! Any good recommendations? I used reddit for a lot of news articles ranging from science to politics. I loved damnthatsinterrsting and beamazed. Is it easy to start a thread? For example, if I wanted to start a mushroom growing sub (magazine?)
Well, it really depends on your interestests. If you have a specific interest, I'd suggest using the search function. Here is an example where I search for mushroom subreddits:
https://lemm.ee/search/q/mushroom/type/Communities/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
In this example (at current time) there's only one community with 1 subscriber. Consider subscribing, posting and commenting to kickstart it.
Here's a busier example with science:
https://lemm.ee/search/q/science/type/Communities/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
You can see that there's a dominant comunity @beehaw.org which will surely have a lot of content posted already.
If there's no equivalent community to the reddit one yet, consider making it.