There is currently a big influx of new users. Most, if not all, being reddit refugees.

I want to welcome you all to the fediverse, lemmy and retrolemmy specifically. If you need help starting out you can either try !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca or you can comment here, post in this community or message me or @Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com directly. We are here to help.

Some basic things:

Usernames are usually written out as @DosDude@retrolemmy.com. The @ in front indicates a user. It looks like an e-mail adress by design, Because there can be users with the same name on different instances. For example: @dosdude@feddit.nl

Communities are usually written out as !general@retrolemmy.com . The exclamation point indicates a community. This also looks like an e-mail address because there can also be communities with the same name on different instances.

Sometimes new communities will not load. This usually means that the community is not yet federated. You can either manually add it to lemmy-federate or you can subscribe. That way the community is federated and posts will show up. If you make a new community it is always good practice to add it to Lemmy federate. To make sure it’s federated to all participating instances and maximize your user spread.

Here is a good FAQ via Lemm.ee.

Some good resources for finding communities:

https://lemmyverse.net/ - A website dedicated to finding new communities. Be sure to set your home instance using the domain name: for example: “retrolemmy.com”. This is to make sure that if you click a community, it automatically links it through your instance.

https://lemmy-federate.com/ - a website to post communities so that servers’ bots automatically subscribe to it, and it will show up in /all on all participating instances.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world - a community dedicated to promoting new communities.
!newcommunities@discuss.online - same as above.
!newcommunities@yiffit.net - same as above.
!lemmyapps@lemmy.world - lemmy apps community

Apps

There are loads of apps for your phone on the stores. Many of them were refitted from reddit apps to Lemmy. Here’s a big megathread with all kinds of apps via lemmy.world
Or you can go to https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ to find one not in the megathread

We hope you have a good time here!

  • Die4EverA
    4·
    6 months ago

    Speaking of https://lemmyverse.net/ the way you set your Home Instance is by clicking the house icon in the top right, and you would type in retrolemmy.com in there

  • ocyrushightop
    3·
    21 days ago

    thanks for hosting, this website is very weird and confusing but i hope it will be better for actual content and discussion as opposed to just seeing the same articles in every sub for 4 days in a row

    • DosDudeOPMA
      2·
      21 days ago

      No problem! Welcome.

      Apps make your life better. Summit has an option to automatically mark duplicates as read.

      Also, subscribing works. But lemmy is small enough that usually blocking unwanted communities on /all works great. This way new communities might pop up sooner.

      • ocyrushightop
        2·
        21 days ago

        i appreciate the tips! i’m gonna have a lot to explore here for sure. thx again homie!