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:

  1. 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.”

  2. Lots of posts say, “Failed to Load Media.” Is that a common Lemmy thing? Or Voyager? Or my device?

  3. 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!

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    1: create an alt. Voyager makes it easy to switch between accounts.

    2: dunno.

    3: yes.

  • Docus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • bluedope@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Yeah. Thanks. Good to know it’s not a client issue and could be a host.

  • The Infinite Nematode@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    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…

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago
    1. Alt account is probably the way to go
    2. A commonly used image host is blocked in a bunch of countries (https://files.catbox.moe/) check if you can open this site
    3. 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
    • bluedope@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      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!