Welcome to Lemmy NZ
We don’t have many members, so until that changes, feel free to subscribe to communities on other instances.
At the top of the screen click Communities, then rather than Subscribed or Local, instead choose All.
This will show all the communities (like subreddits) that are currently federated (connected) with this instance (site).
You can comment on posts in these communities and interact with them the same as users on that instance, and others can subscribe to and post in our communities too.
On the home page, try the “All” tab to see all posts from all instances we federate with.
If you want more information on Lemmy and how it works, see How does this all work, anyway?
I am a software developer with some platform/devops tendencies. I’d be keen to help out with anything in the future.
I just replaced all my bookmarks with lemmy / mastodon. I don’t really enjoy the mastodon format yet but I guess that makes sense as I preferred Reddit over Twitter.
I was just looking at writing a bot for lemmy but I’m not sure what would be useful at this point.
Anyways, thanks for setting this up. I found it by going to register the domain name and I saw it was already registered so I joined. 😊
Thanks for the offer! there are a couple of lemmy bots I’ve seen on Github, but like you I’m not sure it would be helpful yet. But probably eventually we will need it.