Joined from that thread as well!

I want to add to new users, to make sure to check Hot, Top every 6 hours, Scaled, Active, etc. if they aren't seeing interesting things. For Lemmy, Active shows up as the default and it comes across as the least active.

For sure! Here is what I did:

1. Tap the profile icon in the middle of the bar at the bottom of the screen (it might have the text "lemmy.zip")
2. Tap "Get Started"
3. Select "Log in"
4. Type in "piefed.ca", and confirm that you understand the support is experiemental
5. Log in with your username and password

The same app can be used to sign in to a number of websites, so that might be the point of confusion. However, once you have signed in, you should be able to use it normally from here on out :)

You might have to type in piefed.ca as your instance. I think it asks what instance you're on, but it's probably not on the list. Once you're in, you'll love it and all of this is worth it. I swear.

Edit: Also, it looks like there is a voyager crypto app, be sure to get the lemmy version. https://vger.app/

I use boost or synch, but I'm using lemmy.ca and not piefed.

Have you installed it already, what issue are you running into?

You should be able to select PieFed.ca and login with your credentials

Wait, which pill is that again?

We're also configuring our server to handle the load. It definitely has the capacity for it, but there may be intermittent outages as we restart things.

Judging by the time of our comment, I think we were making a config change right around when you made that comment

If people are having issues they can alternately try piefed.zip

It might ease some server load

Direct link to post: https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824

Welcome! Feel free to ask any questions that come up, the community here is very helpful :)

They run Lemmy and Piefed. Other than the differences in software and some of the differences in features that come with it, they work together, can cross-read, cross-post, cross-comment, etc.

Well hello! Bonjour!

Greedy little boot licking pig boy

piefed.ca hasn't had any outages since this morning, what were you seeing?

You only need to sign up for one instance, they all see each others content. Think of it more like email - you wouldn't sign up for both gmail.com and hotmail.com

For example these two both show the same community which is hosted over at lemmy.world:

https://lemmy.ca/c/technology@lemmy.world vs https://piefed.ca/c/technology@lemmy.world

Lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are both run by us (fedecan) and are just different software platforms to interact with the fediverse. Lemmy was the first big popular one and is written in Rust, but Piefed came along more recently and is written in Python (hence the Pie in it's name). Piefed has been quicker about adding features, and many people have issues with the politics of the Lemmy developers. Ultimately they both let you interact with all the same communities and posts.

Otter put a nice doc together at https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started which has some pictures that might help you understand it all. It can be a little confusing at first!

Welcome!

What’s the best way to contact moderators of a community (I almost said sub).

Right now the best way would be to message one of the moderators. You can see a list of moderators in the sidebar. If it looks like none of the moderators are active (ex. no recent activity in the past few weeks or months), you would be better off reaching out to the admins.

What community are you looking to contact the mods of? Maybe I can help

Also, can someone explain all the different instances of Lemmy?

Lemmy is a part of a decentralized network, similar to email. With email, you can make an account with one provider (ex. gmail.com) and then email someone on another provider (ex. yahoo mail).

In this case, you made an account on the lemmy.ca instance. You can create posts, upvote/downvote, comment etc, as if everyone was on one website. You can't use your username and password to log in on another instance, and that's important because your login details are only given to the one organization you trusted enough to make an account with.

I would recommend looking at these two pages from our guides. They have diagrams and infographics, and we've heard feedback that they are helpful :)

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

I’m on Lemmy.ca but with a few clicks on something I ended up on Lemmyworld and didn’t have an account. help?

I suspect you clicked on a link to another instance. When people comment a link, some apps can recognize that it's a link to a Lemmy post and redirect you to the correct page on lemmy.ca, but others (ex. using the website in a browser) might not. It's one of those things that isn't handled that well right now, and is being worked on.

For example, the following links both go to this current post that we are currently commenting on. You and I would use the lemmy.ca version, while people with accounts on lemmy.world would use the other one:

• https://lemmy.ca/post/59551095
• https://lemmy.world/post/42408677