I’ve actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.
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I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it’s not working. I’ve used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it’s not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?
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I’ve also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?
I’m not sure about your first question, but for the second: Mastodon and Lemmy are both part of the Fediverse, implementing the ActivePub protocol. But what each offers is not really compatible with the other. Mastodon is microblogging, whereas Lemmy is news aggregator. The semantics of each also don’t match: does favorite-ing in Mastodon post equal a Lemmy upvote?
So while you can’t natively cross-post between the two systems, there’s no reason why an app can’t integrate the experience of both seamlessly. And in any case, sharing content from one to another is as simple as including the URL.
You can natively cross-post though.
TIL. I’ve struck out the parts of my answer which don’t reflect the present reality.
whereas Lemmy is news aggregator.
Lemmy is ranked-threaded discussion software.
I’ll meet you half way, as the intro text at join-lemmy.com prominently proclaims: “Lemmy: a link aggregator for the Fediverse”
- Pretty sure you can just use the community in the post like @!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Consider putting the mention at the end as the first line of your post will become the post title. So
Lorem ipsum Text text text @lorem@ipsum
On Mastodon will give you a lemmy post that looks like
Title:
Lorem ipsum
Body:
Text text text @lorem@ipsum
You need to add line breaks to your example here. Otherwise you are giving some very bad advice.
What?
Did it show an error when you tried to confirm your email?
it said incorrect login credentials when trying to log in.
the link in the email takes me nowhere but a blank page.
Try clearing the browser. It may have a cookie that needs refreshed.
I don’t know enough about the lemmy server to say whether this is a regular issue. I’d just retry creating a user with the same email.