Welcome!
Welcome to Lemmy.zip
About Lemmy
Lemmy is a federated social link aggregation and discussion platform. It’s being developed by the Lemmy devs
About Federation
What does federation mean?
It means Lemmy is using a protocol (Activitypub) which makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact with each other.
- You can search and view communities on remote servers from here
- You can create posts in remote communities
- You can respond to remote posts
- You will be notified (if you wish) of comments on your remote posts
- You can follow Lemmy users/communities on other platforms that also use the Activitypub protocol like Mastodon
- Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server.
About Lemmy.zip
Lemmy.zip is a Lemmy server aimed at welcoming all and providing a space for all types of topics and discussions, with maybe a slant towards technology and all things related. We are one of the many servers hosting the Lemmy software.
Quick Start Guide
- Feed
Your feed may look relatively empty when you first join, with just the Lemmy.zip posts available. This is because by default your view is set to "Local". You can use the options at the top of your feed to see more posts.
"Subscribed" will show you the communities you have subscribed to."Local" will show just posts from communities that are local to Lemmy.zip."All" will show posts from all communities that have been subscribed to by members of Lemmy.zip from across all servers.
You can also sort your feed by different options, such as "Active", "Hot", and "New".
I fully recommend "Hot" for a good turnover of posts in your feed.
You can set the default Sort and Type in your user settings to your taste.
- If you can't see your own posts in the feed, go to your settings and make sure
Show Read Posts is turned ON!
- NSFW
We are now a NSFW enabled instance, which means there may be NSFW content in the Local and All categories if you leave NSFW enabled in your account. If you do not wish to view NSFW content make sure you toggle off Show NSFW content under your Settings.
Another option is to select “Block Community” from the sidebar, when on the specific community. Once you have done that you will never see it again!
- Searching
In the top menu, you’ll see the search icon. There, you can search for posts, communities etc. You can just enter a search-word and it will find the Post-titles, post-content, communities etc containing that word that the server knows of. So any content any user of this server ever interacted with.
You can also search for a community by it’s link, e.g. [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) or its URL, e.g. https://[email protected]. Even if the server hasn’t ever seen that community, it will look it up remotely. Sometimes it takes some time for it to fetch the info (and displays ‘No results’ meanwhile…) so just be patient and search a second time after a few seconds. Please note search time may be increase if remote servers are experiencing high loads.
For a more in depth list of remote communities, you can visit browse.feddit.de or Lemmyverse search. From there you can copy your chosen communities URL and search for it in Lemmy.zip.
- Communities
You can subscribe to any community on another server and post/comment on that server, all from this instance. Once you've subscribed, this server will continue to pull the latest content from that community through to here.
The subscribe button is on the top right of the community. Click this will federate Lemmy.zip with that community.
You can create a community on this server too (there is no restriction on creating communities on Lemmy.zip, unlike some other instances) and anyone else will be able to subscribe to your community.
You can see all of the instances we've federated with by going here or clicking instances in the footer of the webpage.
Creating a community?
Once you've created your community, you can advertise it via a couple of different communities dedicated to sharing new communties.
There is no problem with having similar communities across instances, as each can host its own discussions, but it may be a good idea to search for a community before creating it as you may find a group that has already done some of the legwork for you.
While this instance is primarily focussed around game and tech related communities, please don't feel restricted to that. Any topic is fine (and encouraged!) as long as it adheres to the general instance rules.
On Lemmy.zip, anyone can create a Community and become its moderator by default. It takes very little effort to create but requires a little bit of commitment to looking after it. You can always choose to remove yourself as moderator (and ideally hand it off to someone else) or delete it completely if needed.
- Funding
Lemmy.zip will never run ads, sell user data, or generate income in a way that isn't clear and agreed by the community.
Therefore if you're enjoying using Lemmy.zip please consider a small donation to help us keep going for the longer term.
You can find out more information or see who has been kind enough to donate by clicking here!
- Moderating
The Admins for Lemmy.zip are as follows:
You can see mod actions via the this link or by clicking modlog at the bottom of the page.
- Mobile Applications
We have a dedicated mobile/tablet site for those who don't want to download an app. This is a webapp and can be saved to your phone's home screen for easy access.
You can navigate to this site by going to m.lemmy.zip
If you'd prefer a native app, a full list of apps for every platform can be found by clicking here.
An alternative website is also here, where you can filter by platform or type: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app
These should all work with Lemmy.zip without any issues.
- Joining Lemmy.zip
Currently there are no restrictions on joining this server. Anyone is free to join as long as they continue to follow the rules in the sidebar.
Please interact with Lemmy after you've joined. The more interactions, the better Lemmy will be (plus, it helps out Lemmy.zip too!)
- Help or Support
If you ever feel you need help or support while on Lemmy.zip, or you've seen something that isn't right or makes you feel uncomfortable, you can send Sami or Demigodrick a message and we will confidentially help. We both have secure messaging links in our profile if you'd rather message with encryption, or you can send an email to [email protected] and we'll respond that way. We're always here to help.
- Thank you!
Thank you for joining Lemmy.zip. Please remember, the most important thing is that you enjoy yourself!
No worries :)
I think the easiest way to summarise federation is to think of email - the servers email each other for each action that happens, but when the server doesn't work properly, that email doesn't get sent and you end up with situations like this unfortunately.