I’m still trying to get used to Lemmy; the main thing confusing me is the federated bit.

I just want to access Lemmy and its content; how do I do that? Currently I’m just going to old.lemmy.world and using that as a starting point.

Is there another instance you would recommend as the default one?

The two main reasons I ask are:

  1. I want to know if there are things I am simply missing out on and there’s a better way to browse Lemmy.

  2. I really don’t like cloudflare and have it disabled in Javascript. I don’t want to leave it enabled for lemmy.world.

  • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    Thanks, this seems like a good option. I appreciate teh old.reddit like interface that old.lemmy.world also has

    Two comments

    1. I can’t log in with this account to slrpnk.net. Should I create a new account, or am I doing something wrong?

    2. A very minor minor comment; one thing I don’t like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.

    3. I know I said 2, but I’m still struggling to understand the concept of instances. So slrpnk.net is a separate world from Lemmy.world right? Can I engage in lemmy.world’s content or no?

    • mschae@discuss.mschae23.deEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago
      1. A very minor minor comment; one thing I don’t like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.

      You can set this on the preferences page :)

      • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Oh man thank you so much on both fronts (for your other post also)

        Small simple things that make the entire thing so much easier

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago
      1. Yes, you need a new account
      2. Not sure, maybe there is a setting
      3. Federation makes it possible to interact with lemmy.world from slrpnk.net
      • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I apologize, I have another follow up question (again all stemming from failing to grasp an intuitive understanding of federation) to point 1.

        I’m fairly sure I was able to sign on lemmy.cafe and make a post in a community over there.

        Basically I am trying to understand why was I able to do that there and not at slrpnk.net. Is it something unique to lemmy.cafe? Something unique to slrpnk.net?

        • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Pretty sure you misremember, as Lemmy.cafe also requires registration to be used. There are some independant frontends (web-clients) that can be used with different Lemmy instances, but for password security reasons I strongly recommend to only use the ones hosted by the instance you have your account on, because otherwise you are basically sharing your password with whoever runs that frontend.

          • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Two things, you were right; my misunderstanding was due to my failure to have an intuitive understanding of defederation.

            What happened was that I signed on in lemmy.world to make a post on lemmy.cafe (through lemmy.world).

            My second question: I tried all weekend to access old.slrpnk.net

            But the site was either really really slow (like a page would pop up after a minute or two) or would just result in an error.

            Is this a problem on my end? Or is something going on that should be sorted out soonish?

            Thanks again and keep up the good work.

            • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Yeah, there is some issue on our end, but sadly it isn’t clear what might be causing it.

      • mehquestion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Another stupid follow up question (related to 2.)

        How did you see this post?

        In other words, exactly how do I get lemmy.world content on slrpnk.net?

        • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Lemmy.world sends your post to slrpnk.net if someone there is subscribed to this community and thus I can see it in my client just as any other local post.