That’s odd. It works here.

For reference my favorite sorts are Subscribed+Scaled and All+Top Day.

Am I the only one that gets this? I tried uploading a video but can’t seem to regardless of file size

I don’t think you can upload a video to Lemmy directly. People usually upload to another site and then paste the link in the URL field.

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Toggling between sections makes no difference

This shouldn’t happen, I’ll poke around and see if I can replicate it.

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so many different sections of lemmy makes it difficult to know where to post

Quick overview if it helps:

• subscribed, local, all, moderator view are different feeds that will show posts from different collections of communities:

  • subscribed shows posts from communities you subscribe to
  • local shows posts from communities on the instance. This can be helpful for topic specific instances, and on our instance it will get you a lot of the Canadian content. The full list of communities on our instance are here: https://lemmy.ca/communities
  • all shows all content that the instance knows about
  • moderator view only shows posts from communities where you are a mod.

• hot, active, scaled, controversial etc. affects the order of the posts on the feed.

You can set defaults in your settings once you know what you like, I haven’t changed mine in a long time now. I use subscribed with scaled, but I recommend trying out things to see what you prefer :)

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When posting, you will be posting to a specific community. What I like to do is navigate to it in my address bar. It will follow this format:

lemmy.ca/c/COMMUNITY@example.com

For example

• the fediverse community on lemmy.world: lemmy.ca/c/fediverse@lemmy.world
• the Canada community on lemmy.ca: lemmy.ca/c/canada (or lemmy.ca/c/canada@lemmy.ca if you find it easier)

Toggling between subbed/local/all/mod view does nothing

and

I just found out posting this that I need to be subscribed to the lemmy.ca support / questions in order to post here.

I can’t duplicate your subbed/Local/all view, and I can post here even though I am not subscribed.
Are you using the actual website, or one of the many unofficial apps?

I tried uploading a video but can’t seem to regardless of file size.

Lemmy doesn’t host video, you’ll need to upload it elsewhere and link to it.

Check whether the Hot/Top/new buttons work; and also really the NEXT button. Those green buttons haven’t worked for a while. I’m not ‘me too’-ing so much as hoping I can help you flesh out the problems you’re seeing based on what I’m seeing.

To be clear, I’m not looking for much support. My set-up is old and usually everyone says “lol, buy a new XYZ”; so they agree on a solution and I agree they should get perspective once they leave their teens.