• TeaHands@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve spent the last month of my life basically glued to Lemmy, answering support requests and posting threads in communities I wanted to see grow. My work output may drop to zero, my marriage may fail, but goddammit there are people who don’t know how to sub to communities on another instance and they need my help!

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        I’m the exact same!

        On Reddit I would just lurk, but with Lemmy I really do want it to succeed, so I’ve been contributing where I can, and for whatever reason it’s been mainly on lotr memes (check them out by the way, !lotrmemes@midwest.social)

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          This was basically my first sub on my first day here lol, can confirm everyone Lord of the Memes is where it’s at.

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        I’ve seen you around a lot actually! Doing the good work and you even helped me with my star trek sign up 😊

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        So ehm, to someone who uses only wefwef, do you have any general tips? I don’t have any particular problem now but you seem the type who knows things that makes life easier! If that makes sense, English is not my language

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          The number one tip is to search for interesting communities through lemmyverse.net/communities, rather than your home instance’s search. This will let you find communities that are small or new and haven’t been synced to your home instance yet. You can set your home instance with the house icon at the top right, and then all links will open in your instance so you can easily subscribe.

          It also lets you search Kbin magazines to subscribe to (through the top right hamburger menu) although federation between Lemmy and Kbin is sometimes a bit patchy.

          Other than that, just remember all of the mobile apps are extremely new and if you’re struggling to do something, it might just be because it’s not supported in wefwef yet. Lemmy was clearly built by people who prefer to use desktop, but the mobile website is very functional and gives you full access, so that’s a good place to check if you can’t find how to do something within the app.

          Looks like you’ve already got stuck in and been commenting a lot so keep it up, and welcome to Lemmy! 😊

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            I use tons of apps and the browser to use Lemmy. And it can be frustrating but I keep at it because I want to succeed.

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              At the rate the app devs are moving, I imagine a month from now they’ll be a bit more on par feature-wise and things will be more consistent. Then maybe I can pick one and uninstall the other hundred or so that currently live on my homescreen for tech support purposes!

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      As someone who never used twitter, do you reccomend Mastodon? I’m on squabbles and lemmy atm and having a lot of fun

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        Never had an account on twitter as well. Mainly wanted to get some better visibility into various news and such. Plus federation is awesome. So far I’m pretty happy with it.

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    I am in this picture and I don’t like it.

    But actually, I’ve spent more time making memes than working for the past week 😂

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    This place is at a magical point in its growth where it has enough people to fully replace that other site for me (but higher quality), but it’s also still new and exciting and worth contributing to help it succeed.

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      Yeah it feels fun. For me it’s the only time I’ve actually enjoyed being involved in social media and I’m getting really into it lol. I’ve even started making memes!