Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to say hi - no doubt most of you saw us over on Reddit, and now we’re here (and I’m going to claim, we’re the first assistive tech organisation on Lemmy). (And by ‘we’, it’s Quentin, but who knows, we might do an AMA or something and I’ll throw the keys to Mick one day!)
So, do feel free to hit us up with any #NVDA questions you haven’t already asked elsewhere 😊 (At least, as long as I’ve done this right and it makes it out into the world 😂)
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@NVAccess hello! yes, you did it right. Even better, I get it from mastodon, so as a tribute to the federated world out there, I’m posting from here. Congrats!
I have not got my head around how the fediverse works - I can use Mastodon, and Lemmy seems doable, but how one is joined to the other and so on I just don’t get. Maybe I’m getting old! Not helped by that it keeps telling me “Language not allowed” when I try to post. This one seems to have worked so evidently I had to specifically select “English” for this reply?
@NVAccess it’s called activity pub, it’s a protocol which all of those fedi platforms speak, when talking to one another. Internally and with their own api, yeah, something different can be made, but the common protocol for these things is activity pub. There are others like diaspora, but prevalent here is activity pub
I can read this, so looks like it works. Hopefully you can read this. It’s The Evil Chocolate Cookie by the way, but my main account decided to eat itself for dinner, so this is a back up.
Welcome to Lemmy! You have definatly done this right! We’re hoping that as time goes on we can make the process less confusing.
Thanks! The only bit that threw me was when I went to post it first asked for a URL (Figured I didn’t need) and further down a “Community”. I checked with @rumster@rblind.com who confirmed to put “main” there and I was good to go :)
Yes, URL is optional; like on Reddit, it’s used if someone wants to post a link. Main is the default community here; every instance has to have a community, for people to subscribe to us from other instances. Because you’re signed up locally, you can just refer to this community as main. But for people on other Lemmy instances, we’re !main@rblind.com. What should be happening is for Lemmy to be auto-subscribing you to main, so that when you go to post, it will just show up as your only community if your account is new.
Ah no I had a whole list of things I could pick for community (Technology, askLemmy, RedditMigration, no stupid questions, news, you should know, and a heap of others). What would have happened if I’d just left it blank (not sure if it would have let me, I didn’t try).
Oh good! The last upgrade changed that. Looks like you can now post to communities your not subscribed to. As you can tell, everything about Lemmy is extremely new and in flux.
Not a problem, we’re all learning :) Btw, random visual question - next to the username for each comment is an image of a mouse head - I was thinking that was because the people involved are on rblind, but @bgtlover@linuxrocks.online is posting from a different server on Mastodon and has the same image?
@NVAccess @fastfinge yes, that’s the default avatar for people who don’t have one. If I uploaded one on here, I’m not sure it would transfer over there, but if you do, the mouse head will be replaced by that image
Folks can set an avatar in your profile. The mouse head is shown when you have no Avatar set. To set one, press enter on your name to expand it, go to settings, and then there’s the option to upload an avatar (shown next to all of your comments) and a banner (shown at the top of your profile).
Yep, that’s what it was - now I set my avatar and feel all corporatey! 😆
Good stuff. I’m reading this from a mastodon instance, the fediverse is pretty cool…
