1d ago

Qs from a New Lemmy User

Hi. I created a lemm.ee account and hope for a Reddit alt. I came to Reddit from StumbleUpon and Digg so I’m open to migrating to the next good thing.

I paid for Apollo and loved it. And I’ve found Voyager to be pretty close. So that’s cool.

I was able to migrate my list of subscriptions and find many similar communities and I continue to explore and subscribe to active communities on Lemmy.

But a few questions I can’t find answers to:

Can I create a multireddit in Lemmy/Voyager? Like I want to keep NSFW out of my home feed in case my kids look over my shoulder while I’m casually scrolling, but would like to save some favorite nsfw subs in one place for “future convenience.”
Lots of posts say, “Failed to Load Media.” Is that a common Lemmy thing? Or Voyager? Or my device?
Do I need to subscribe to communities on multiple instances? Like I see there are a lot of Technology communities across various servers. Do those aggregate to one place? Or do I need multiple subscriptions until I find the instance that serves up the best content.

Thanks for your help!

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Alt account all the way
If you're still on iOS, the failed to load media bit is likely webm videos. As far as I know, Voyager uses the stock video viewer, which also has trouble with them (same as opening in safari etc.) Dunno if that's an Apple thing or a Google thing, licensing maybe? Mlem seems to handle them fine, but that is running its own renderer, which I believe Apollo did as well.
There's a lot of overlap between instances. It's messy. Subscribing to multiples will get you duplicates of a lot of posts, but only subscribing to one will miss some things, especially if it's a smaller community. Personally, I subscribe to niche/hobby content for the most part. Anything else I'll just use all/local, and block comms I'm not interested in. (Voyager's keyword filter also helps a lot, but good luck avoiding American politics even with blocks and filters.)
- Good news on 2: next release of Lemmy should fix this! 🎉
- Yeah the filters are key for removing lots of the American politics stuff. That was one of my fav features from Apollo.
  If I have an alt account, but the same username and email, then all the things I sub to will be open, right? That’s the point of the open protocols? To keep that away from my username I would need a different email and different username, right? Maybe Reddit was just the same and I’m overthinking this.
  Thanks for your reply!
  
  I’m overthinking this.
  You are lol. It's okay. Things are confusing at first.
  Want an alt account for if .ee is down (or decide you want to make somewhere else your home)? Go to any other instance and make an account. Same username, different username, email, whatever. There's a backup/restore settings option in the web UI that you can use to port your subs etc over.
  Want an alt account for porn? Sign up on lemmynsfw.com (or other instance that doesn't filter adult content). Username, email, all up to you.
  e: Accounts on different instances are different entities
  Then you can switch between accounts in Voyager using the... I completely forget how it's labeled but it's the middle button on the toolbar (e: user icon). It's seamless once you have it set up.

Communities with the same name but on different instances are distinct. Find the active ones and subscribe to each of those. No way to combine them multi Reddit style yet.

Re: 2 I get that a lot. And if you go to the host and look at the website it's the same there. It's either one of the hosts people use, or a file format, or maybe the content gets evicted for some reason like space. It doesn't seem to be a federation or client issue.
I did catch one where I saw the content on my PC and then it failed to load on my phone a short while later. I'm not sure what's going on but there's seems to be plenty of content even with those posts missing.
- Yeah. Thanks. Good to know it’s not a client issue and could be a host.

1: create an alt. Voyager makes it easy to switch between accounts.
2: dunno.
3: yes.
- 👍🏻

Alt account is probably the way to go
A commonly used image host is blocked in a bunch of countries (https://files.catbox.moe/) check if you can open this site
They are separate communities, kinda like politics and politics2 on Reddit. They don’t aggregate jet but that option is WIP. My tip is go with communities not on Lemmy.ml and hexbear.net due to some questionable moderation in a bunch of communities on those
- Yeah. The knocks on .ml and hexbear seem to be common, so I’ll stay away from those instances and then just sub to the most active comms for now. Thank you!

I usually look at subscription numbers on the communities to decide which one to post to, I imagine that over time there will be aggregations, splitting, recombinations and bitter factional war...
- Subscriber numbers are misleading, because there are highly populated communities that were created during previous migrations, but were abandoned due to lack of content.
  It's the weekly and monthly active users numbers that indicate active communities.
  And "Smart Sort" on lemmyverse.net is busted because it over prioritizes subscriber count.
  
  Interesting, I didn't know that

Multireddits is possible with the app Arctic for iOS.
- Thanks. I’ll check it out.

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