The domain name made me join :)
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The same rules as the main instance apply here.
I thought it was quite a cool URL! I got lots of people telling me off for using .zip though
Why did they tell you off for using it?
Edit: I think its pretty awesome honestly
I think some people are worried that it could be used to scam people, i.e. please download this invoice.zip file, but it actually leads to a website etc. There are extra securities with .zip domains so google is trying to block that from happening.
Yeah, me too.
Thanks for this system, already like the looks a little better than I expected. Also thank you for this post for us newbies to the fediverse.
I found this on Reddit as well. Thanks for putting this up! I am looking forward to these communities growing outside of Reddit.
Welcome along! Glad you're here :)
Hey there, found your instance in a comment on /r/lemmy. Thanks for doing this!
Is there an FAQ or something similar posted here somewhere? Or do you have any other resources you could recommend for a long-time reddit user?
Hey, welcome! I've updated the post with some info and will be adding more. Let me know if you have any specific questions though.
Just read it - thanks a bunch. You mention that there currently are no restrictions on adding communities to lemmy.zip. How would I know if I'm creating a duplicate to an already existing "subreddit" community? And do you know of any way to combine these communities to avoid the existence of many duplicates?
There is a really helpful resource at https://browse.feddit.de/ - type a community name in there and it should show you all instances of that community. If its not already on the list you're welcome to create it here. It does take a few seconds to search all the instances so some patience is required!
This was my first question after reading the post. Especially with so many people flocking to lemmy to start up their communities, there will be TONS of duplicates.
Hi from Singapore
Hey! Welcome :)
How do I subscribe to topic/community (!gunners) on another lemmy (dotworld) instance?
You can paste the link for the community into the search bar, it takes a little while to appear but it will come up, then click the link to the community. Then there will be a subscribe option to join the community. If its not working you can paste the link here and I'll have a look at it
Thank you. Figured out the subscribe option is in the sidebar button
Hello, I just joined this instance. I'm not the type that can do the moderation but I hope someone will make a dnd community on Lemmy. There is one on Kbin but there isn't a good mobile app for that.
Just saw this on the Linux Gaming subreddit. Glad this is a thing cause I tried to sign up for .ml and noticed it was not accepting new sign ups and this post is a great explainer for how this site works.
Welcome :) Glad it helped!
Agreed, this post allowed me to understand more about how lemmy works
Anyone else having trouble posting on outside communities? https://lemmy.zip/post/4670 Tried posting here but 1. It never actually submits, and 2. If I go directly to the community https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/28300?scrollToComments=true it actually shows comments that I don't see on lemmy.zip is it just a load issue for now?
Hello all. Thanks for the server. I have only been here a short while, so am still trying to get my head around the distributed design of these forums.
I did sub to https://lemmy.zip/c/[email protected] (is that the correct usage?) and I tried to post a quick reply, but the submit is just never completing. Is that due to lemmy.ml being down/overloaded? Seems to be a big issue if this is occurring with only a small amount of subscribers trying things out. How will the servers cope with a huge influx of reddit refugees?
no matter if I sort by hot or active my feed is the same posts they were a day or 2 ago. What is happening?
Appears to be a bug in Lemmy - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076 As soon as an update is available I will apply it to fix this.
Edit: I've done a quick restart of the server as apparently its a temporary fix, but I don't know how long that will work - suggestions on github say only an hour before it breaks again. It's fixed in the next lemmy release though.
I've got another question if I may. I wanted to create a couple of communities and found that this seems to not be possible from the Jerboa app. So I went to the "create community" tab in the browser version of lemmy.zip. When clicking "create", nothing happens, though. I don't get any error messages, nothing is loading or something.
Does community creation need to be approved by you (mods) first or am I doing something wrong? Sorry if this has been asked before. The search function isn't the best (yet) as we know, and I didn't know where else to ask.
Hey, no worries its what this thread is for.
Can you have a look and see if you can see this? It may have been a temporary issue, but you should be fine to create communities. Lots of database issues with Lemmy at the moment that the devs are working on so it may be linked to that.
I'll have a look at the logs, may send you a message if that's OK? Be good to see if anything shows in the logs in real-time as you create a community to see what's happening.
The link seems to be working, yes. I can't open it in Jerboa, strangely, as it just redirects me to my phone's home screen, but I can open it in my browser.
Yes, for sure! I tried creating the community again like 20 minutes ago or so, and it didn't work. Should I try again?
I've sent you a message :)
Ok, so I singed up on lemmy.zip, but the community I want to contribute appearantly belongs to lemmy.ml (!politicalhumor). Do I have to log in there? If yes, then how if the logging button "loads" indefenetely?
Thanks for the help in advance!! And sorry for the noob question
Hey, as I don't think anyone subscribed to it yet we've not pulled the posts through, you can go to the search page (little magnifingy glass icon) and paste the link to their webpage (https://lemmy.ml/c/politicalhumor). It will say no results for a big after you hit search, that's normal! Eventually a link will pop up and probably say 0 subscribers. Click that and it'll take you to the page, and then you can hit subscribe there. It will then subscribe you to that community. I hope that makes sense but let me know if you need any help with it.