Guide: Switching to Lemmy

This post will store guides for users who are new to Lemmy! (There’s no wiki pages yet.)

This is a work in progress: please questions or make suggestions below, and I’ll use them to improve the guide over time.

Why use monyet.cc?

It’s a lot like reddit: Your monyet.cc account gives you access to every other Lemmy community (aka subreddit) across every instance (aka server). There are already over a million posts across the Lemmyverse! Check out !gaming@beehaw.org !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world, or !memes@lemmy.ml.
But created by our community and 100% ad-free: This project is a labor of love, and we don’t have to answer to investors. Lemmy is very cheap to host. We believe that love is more sustainable than a company trying to turn communities into dollars!
We’re building lots of new Malaysian communities: monyet.cc lets us offer an entire “reddit” just for Malaysia. Because you can now curate your subscriptions, we can host all kinds of communities that we couldn’t before!
- Your feed can be 24/7 memes, all politics, no politics, news or no news, in Chinese, Tamil, or Jawi, nothing but !malaysian_dating or cat pics… whatever works best for you!
- Just subscribe to the communities you like, or block the ones you don’t
- It’s still early days, so if you don’t see a community you’re looking for, do consider creating it!

Creating an account: It’s super easy – no email account needed! Just click Sign Up.
Which app to use: We recommend Memmy if you’re on iOS, and Jerboa if you’re on Android. There are lots of other choices too!

Local vs All: Lemmy has two main views. Click Local to explore all the Malaysian stuff, and All to explore the Lemmyverse!
Discovering new communities: Lemmy has lots of active communities (subreddits) on other instances (servers). Many act just like default reddit subs! See below for a guide on how to subscribe to them.
Dark mode: Username - Settings - Themes - darkly

Upvotes are tied to your username: Like Twitter, on Lemmy people can see who is upvoting and downvoting posts and comments. (If that feels weird to you, you can use a throwaway!)

Can I create a bunch of communities and just start posting random stuff? Yes please, we’d love that!!
Do we have the CPU / bandwidth for X?: Yes! Lemmy is super lightweight. Please act as if we have infinite bandwidth and CPU.