Q. What is Lemmy.ninja?
A. Lemmy.ninja is your portal to Lemmy, a social media network similar to Reddit. Unlike Reddit, there’s no monolithic central server where everyone posts their content. Instead, content is organized under Lemmy communities on various different Lemmy sites. A community is like a subreddit – it contains posts organized around the community’s theme. At the time of this writing, there are around 13,000 communities hosted on just under 1,000 separate Lemmy sites. There are a few communities hosted on Lemmy.ninja, but the vast majority of communities you will subscribe to and participate in reside on other Lemmy sites. You can view all of the content, regardless of where it’s hosted, at Lemmy.ninja.
Q. I created an account, but I can’t find my validation email
A. It probably went to your spam folder. We’ve investigated reports of missing validation emails, and every one of them ended up in the spam folder.
Q. How do I subscribe to content?
A. Go to the list of Communities. By default, you will see the communities hosted at Lemmy.ninja. Change the list to show all communities. At Lemmy.ninja, we have tried to pre-populate as many interesting communities as we can. Click subscribe next to any and all communities you are interested in. Once you do that, content from those communities will start to appear on your feed. You can interact with that content – leave comments, upvote and downvote, send direct messages, etc. – all from your feed on Lemmy.ninja.
Q. How do I find a community that isn’t on the list of All Communities at Lemmy.ninja?
A. Use the Lemmy Community Browser and search for a community that you want to visit. Pay attention to how many posts, users, and comments the community has. With Lemmy being so new, many communities have very low participation. Try to pick a commuinity with high participation. Once you have found a community you like, the process for subscribing to it on Lemmy is tricky. This is because the Lemmy software is still very new and has many rough edges. Here is what we’ve found is the best process:
- Copy the URL for the community to your clipboard. (e.g., https://beehaw.org/c/technology)
- Go to the list of communities at Lemmy.ninja.
- Paste the URL you copied earlier into the search box.
If your commlunity was added successfully, you will see it appear in the search results after a few seconds! Now all you have to do is subscribe to the community for the content to start flowing to Lemmy.ninja and your feed.
- Click on the community you just added.
- On the right of your screen, click Subscribe.
That’s it! Now when you visit your feed at Lemmy.ninja, you will see posts from your new community appearing and you can interact with them.
Q. I’ve subscribed to communities, but my feed doesn’t update very much.
A. Part of the reason for this is that Lemmy is young. There’s a lot of content out there, but not quite enough to make the Active sort type work properly. Try setting your sort type to New instead.
Q. I subscribed to a community, but there are zero comments on every post! What’s going on?
A. If you subscribed to a community that has never been subscribed to at Lemmy.ninja before, then it will take time for the posts and comments to be loaded. This only happens the first time a community is added to Lemmy.ninja. After about an hour, you should notice all the content has been loaded and you won’t have any loading delays in the future.
Q. Can I create my own community at Lemmy.ninja?
A. Yes! We only ask that you ensure that your community has
- An icon
- A banner
- Active moderators
- Community rules consistent with the Lemmy.ninja site rules
Q. Some of the communities I have subscribed to show “Subscribe Pending” on the Lemmy.ninja communities page. What is this?
A. This is a known bug. It happens when subscribing to communities on overloaded Lemmy servers. You are actually subscribed, and content from that server is reaching your feed.
Q. What is kbin?
A. Kbin is software that can be used to access the same content as a Lemmy server. There are subtle differences between Lemmy and Kbin, but they can access each other’s posts and comments seamlessly.
Q. How do I subscribe to a kbin magazine from Lemmy.ninja?
A. @morelikepinniped@lemmy.world posted this solution for subscribing to kbin content from Lemmy, which we have edited here to match the lemmy.ninja instance.
- Note the name of the kbin magazine you want to subscribe to (example: kbin.social/m/books)
- Log into your Lemmy instance from a browser
- The Lemmy instance you are registered with will be the first part of the URL and the kbin community will be the second part. Example: I’m registered with lemmy.ninja so to register with the kbin Books magazine I would type https://lemmy.ninja/c/books@kbin.social
- From there, just hit subscribe and it will start showing up anywhere you’re logged into your Lemmy instance