There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here’s a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

  • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m a reddit refugee like many others, and was delighted to find Canada well-represented in the fediverse!

    Now I’ve been exploring various communities and have a question. Many posts seem to offer a link to another instance and all the comments are local to that instance. I don’t think I can post there without opening a new account? Or am I wrong? I can comment in the post containing the link, but there is usually no activity there, so I can’t join an ongoing discussion that way.

    Or at least that’s the way it appears to me. I’m confused!

    • Aawr@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If you can access the thread in another community you can post there without creating another account. That’s the main draw of this setup. Still new myself and there is some growing pains finding the other instances communities but once I am there it is working

      • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks.

        Well, here’s an example of what I’m talking about. The post contains nothing but a link but when you follow that, it says You must log in or register to comment.

        But I just noticed elsewhere it says I need to subscribe to [email protected]

        So I’ve gone through the motions of doing that, but when I look at Communities -> Subscribed, it now says Subscribe Pending under [email protected].

        I’m going to assume that once approved, I can then comment?

        • Mars@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          What’s likely happening is that when you link through and see “You must log in or register to comment”, you aren’t accessing that post via the lemmy.ca instance. Your account is instance-specific, but as @Aawr said, you can interact with content from other instances (unless that instance or community has rules to the contrary or has blocked your instance).

          The way in which you can access that post via your “home” instance of lemmy.ca is either:

          Using these, I found my way here: https://lemmy.ca/post/626156