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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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(Reminder: if you have shared the original version in a public post with an old version up, replacing it with this one might be more helpful.)

I want to preface, if you see a mistake in the image or have something helpful to add, go right ahead! I still have the layered files for this, so edits can be made very quickly. I chose to handwrite the text to avoid font copyright infringement.

Feel free to share this poster as you wish, especially on Reddit. All I ask is that you respect the license and don’t remove my socials at the bottom. If anyone’s addition is included, I’ll credit them, and if this gets added onto (or translated) by someone else later, they can add their info as well.

I hope someone can find it useful with the subreddit blackouts right around the corner.

I want to thank the Beehaw admins so much for their amazing work!

(Poster edited; I spotted a duplicated word, [email protected] noted the lack of whitespace; current version is slightly larger and has been spaced out. You can still request the 800x2000 size, but know it is a little squished.)

(Edit 2: Removed defederation part as it’s not really required. The email analogy [email protected] suggested has been added, thanks!)

(Edit 3: Here’s another version making the interconnectivity a bit clearer and mentioning some cool-looking reader apps that have been suggested! Also made the image slightly longer for ease of viewing. I might do some small cosmetic changes tomorrow)

(Edit 4 is here with the date updated towards the bottom. This version contains a reminder to verify your email, lets people know why mlem isn’t showing up on App Store searches, and added fedia.io to Kbin instances. Some colors have been changed slightly to be more mobile friendly, as this is written and edited from a phone tablet. If you have a hard time reading this because of the changes, please let me know. Thank you all for the help and tips!)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really like this, nice work 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still not entirely sure of how it works, but I still think this was really useful. Thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great work on this guide!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So I'm trying to understand the whole federation thing, I know we can view/reply to the posts/comments on different servers, even to different platforms(?) like kbin/Mastodon while using a Lemmy account, though they might have slightly different formats, but can we sort of "follow" the feeds of other platforms?

Essentially what I'm trying here is to look for a one app/account to rule them all approach, where I can doom scroll through all the feeds from everywhere, kbin, Mastodon, Fedia, Beehaw, you name it.

For instance, since every server appears to have their own Communities/Magazines, I'm wondering if I can just subscribe to something like [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected], and read through all their posts in a single page?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

join the same communities together

Let me make sure I have this right:

  • there are separate Lemmy instances
  • I can chat with other people from other instances (like email)

If I wanted to join the same communities as a friend, do I need to sign up for another instance or do communities 'live' on multiple instances? For instance, a community on 'cats.' If there is one on {instance1} and {instance2}. They aren't the same, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@[email protected] @[email protected] to add onto what was said, the cool thing about the fediverse is that it's all interoperable:
i am currently replying from my own self-hosted [akkoma](https://akkoma.social/] instance. this is more of a twitter-like microblogging software, that i'm running on a server i rent with a few friends. with it, i can't really browse lemmy/kbin communities yet, because akkoma doesn't yet have support for those, but i can reply and read content from users, and i believe even follow communities! and i can also follow video creators on peertube, or on the instagram-like pixelfed, whichever instance they use, because it's all the same protocol, so i don't have to sign up there :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I'm new to this sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info! Been here for a few days but it can still be a little confusing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great post, looks awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was confused by "instance instances" in the first starred note.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Question: Why are multiple communities allowed with the same name? Won't that create too much confusion? beehaw.org/c/community is different than lemmy.ml/c/community. Wouldn't it be better that all subs go to a single instance, no matter what the TLD is?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this! It's really helpful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

There are apps available that connect to multiple servers but they don't yet support KBin specifically just yet. Hopefully soon!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are a saint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Questions:

join the same communities popular posts will only live on specific instances

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