I thought I understood it at first but then I got confused when I visited other instances, but I think I get it now
edit: okay I’m still confused on how the search works
I’m just an hour or so into this, but this video helped me:
https://youtu.be/K8fBSrhHrE8
And this search page mentioned in the above video:
https://browse.feddit.de/
And here is another page to discover communities:
https://browse.feddit.de/
The main thing I’ve realized is that if you visit these communities on other instances, you will not be logged in and so you can’t subscribe. What you have to do is copy the URL and paste it into this instance’s search function. It may take a second for the search to complete, but you should see that community in the results. Click on the result and you will see that you are logged in and that you can subscribe.
Best thing to do is let them stay there. All the tech savvy people who know how to stay safe online moved here so its just a matter of time until something bad happens to them.
Lemmy was confusing at first, until I gave up and signed up somewhere. From then on the user experience was not flawless, but pretty solid. Default sorting for new accounts should probably be changed, but as soon as you discover “all” it’s smooth sailing.
I’ve since moved to an account on another instance, now that I have a better idea of what I want and what the instances are like, but I only lost a few comments in that move.
Please don’t link to Reddit. Let’s not boost their traffic.
It was straight forward for me - I did some googling to understand the way that different servers shared data, picked what I thought was a popular platform (lemm.ee) and setup shop with my first community (being migrated from you know where).
Same exact experience for me. It hasn’t been too difficult to pick up the Lemmy basics. I only ever lurked on Reddit and here on Lemmy I’m trying to be more of an active participant.
The Jerboa app not working due to the lemm.ee server not being upgraded to v18 was confusing at first - but then I found the conversations going on and I understand why we haven’t upgraded yet. I’m patiently just using the lemm.ee website directly.