Am I the only one that gets this? I tried uploading a video but can’t seem to regardless of file size

I don’t think you can upload a video to Lemmy directly. People usually upload to another site and then paste the link in the URL field.

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Toggling between sections makes no difference

This shouldn’t happen, I’ll poke around and see if I can replicate it.

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so many different sections of lemmy makes it difficult to know where to post

Quick overview if it helps:

• subscribed, local, all, moderator view are different feeds that will show posts from different collections of communities:

  • subscribed shows posts from communities you subscribe to
  • local shows posts from communities on the instance. This can be helpful for topic specific instances, and on our instance it will get you a lot of the Canadian content. The full list of communities on our instance are here: https://lemmy.ca/communities
  • all shows all content that the instance knows about
  • moderator view only shows posts from communities where you are a mod.

• hot, active, scaled, controversial etc. affects the order of the posts on the feed.

You can set defaults in your settings once you know what you like, I haven’t changed mine in a long time now. I use subscribed with scaled, but I recommend trying out things to see what you prefer :)

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When posting, you will be posting to a specific community. What I like to do is navigate to it in my address bar. It will follow this format:

lemmy.ca/c/COMMUNITY@example.com

For example

• the fediverse community on lemmy.world: lemmy.ca/c/fediverse@lemmy.world
• the Canada community on lemmy.ca: lemmy.ca/c/canada (or lemmy.ca/c/canada@lemmy.ca if you find it easier)