- A very minor minor comment; one thing I don’t like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.
You can set this on the preferences page :)
I’m still trying to get used to Lemmy; the main thing confusing me is the federated bit.
I just want to access Lemmy and its content; how do I do that?
You should be able to see pretty much anything from any instance. That’s kind of the point :)
Currently I’m just going to old.lemmy.world and using that as a starting point.
It’s worth noting that old.lemmy.world doesn’t use my fork of mlmym (yet? I should write to them about this), so you are missing out on a few features, most notably user preferences, which you’ll need to go to the normal lemmy.world UI for. But that shouldn’t generally be a problem.
- I really don’t like cloudflare and have it disabled in Javascript. I don’t want to leave it enabled for lemmy.world.
I don’t remember right now whether lemmy.world uses cloudflare (it looks like it does, for mlmym at least). There are probably other instances that don’t use it, but most will use some kind of anti-bot system. In the end, it’s a matter of choosing the option you’re most comfortable with :)
mlmym itself shouldn’t need any JavaScript, although some things will be slightly nicer with it enabled (voting, replying, and so on don’t require a page reload, for example).
If you’re using lemmy-ui (the default), it should be an option in the context menu after posting a comment. I don’t think it’s possible to do while you’re still writing it.
It means the comment is “distinguished” (or marked as “speak as moderator”). It basically means that the user is posting officially, in their role as community moderator. On old reddit, this was marked by a green username background.
In my opinion, lemmy should also only show the [] moderator icon when the comment is distinguished, but unfortunately that’s not the case.
In the settings, you can set your “discussion languages”. Any posts and comments in languages you didn’t select here won’t be shown to you.
The closest you’ll probably get to this is by disabling “show read posts” (also called “show me posts I’ve already viewed”).