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How to Search Current Community and How to Make a New Community?

I've used Sync for Reddit for years, but I'm struggling a bit with Lemmy. I'm trying not to go back to Reddit except for occasional information gathering. Are these 2 things currently present in Sync for Lemmy?: 1) Searching the only currently active community and 2) Creating a new community from within the app. Finally, can someone link me the manual so I don't ask stupid questions?

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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
  • When I was still a Linux noob I used to want to do all of the cool customizations and would often end up rendering the operating system unusable. Eventually I just switched to KDE whoch has a lot of customization built in. Some distros make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but I think being able to customize and run the latest software out of the box makes a huge difference.

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
  • My primary desktop is Windows 11, but literally no other computer I personally own runs Windows. Part of it is games, part of it is proprietary software (music production, dj, etc). I could probably game on Linux full time, but until the commercial software situation is improved I will always have an additional Windows or Mac computer.

  • What's the point of buying new phones every years?
  • For me it's just an unhealthy fascination. Tech is the one place where consumerism got it's dirty claws in me. We didn't have a computer in my household until I was 15 and it was a super slow and old PC my older brother bought for $500. This was back in 1999. I eventually became obsessed with finding the best value for money mobile devices and bought way too many phones, laptops and computers.

  • Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?
  • That's the goal, but it may not work in practice. I often used Reddit as a place for curated information. So a lot of Google searches like "wireguard server reddit" to get good no nonsense information. I think the lack of population and time could make it hard for Lemmy.ml to immediately replace Reddit for me, but I hope it will be successful. I'm ML ideology by nature so the idea of the Fediverse really appeals to me.

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