You're subscribed to lemmy.ml so you would just go to lemmy.ml in your mobile browser. If you're looking for a mobile app, there are several, Jerboa being (I think) the most mature.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
26 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
1452 readers
39 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
π
While GitHub can do a lot of funky stuff, a GitHub "repo" it is effictivly an project folder. So usually if you open a project (usually called "creatorname/Projectname"), there is a bunch of files. Below that is usually the documentation. It Is part of the project but GitHub is so nice to render it for you. Usually there should be an explanation what this project is and usually a rough explanation what to do with it. I say rough because depending on the popularity and the target audience you get everything from "download here for your OS" buttons to "adapt for your usecase compile with gcc and have fun"
As a user that is kind of it.
Above the files are usually a few tabs.
Code are the files. On the right side is this green button with "get the code" where you can download a zip. But you can usually open the files online and see the raw contents.
Issues are bugs people reported that are in various states or being fixed (or not).
Pull requests are people that contributed code and want the maintainer to review and hopefully integrate into the project.
GitHub uses git for cooperative development. but git is complicated, not necessary to use programs shared in github and while I can use it, I am far from proficient enough to explain it on the the internet.
The official web app is what you use if you browse to lemmy.ml. Maybe I misunderstanding what you are looking for.
https://join-lemmy.org/apps I actually went to the link on that page.
Yea, maybe that page is a little misleading. lemmy-ui is probably what you're using now. It's the "webserver" that comes with lemmy that lets you access it from a browser (phone or desktop.) It's not the ONLY option, but most instances (sites like lemmy.ml) use it. You can expect to see a bunch of phone and even other apps on that page as lemmy gets bigger.
It sounds like you came across documentation for how to host a Lemmy server. Can you explain what it is you're trying to do? I'm not sure what you mean by "use the official web app."
Well, I use Jerboa but it's unstable. So I went to that page: https://join-lemmy.org/apps and tried to link to "official web app". But I came accross Github a few other times and I'm always confused...
The link there is for hosting the web app, not for users. You should just go to the URL of your Lemmy home instance.
All right thanks.
The βofficial web appβ is how people can self-host Lemmy, to access it as a user it's just the website.
Got you thanks. I'd still like to find a basic tutorial on Github one day.
If you're not a developer all you really need to know is how to check a Readme file, and the releases page.
If you want to self-host Lemmy you can just use this easy install script, just make sure to modify the config file to suite your setup it's only a couple variables, and it's pretty self-explanatory. https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
Usually for these things there's downloads in the release section. For example, Jerboa's repository has an Android APK you can download directly from the releases page there. But you can also get it from F-Droid and Google Play.
You've guessed right, GitHub is for developers. If you don't want to be dealing with source code, you probably don't have any reason to care about GitHub.
Others have already covered your particular use case: you found the code for the web UI for lemmy, it's only useful to server admins. As a user you just go to the website, in this case lemmy.ml.
Yeah GitHub, are they trying to be obtuse over there on purpose? Anyway you need to look in the releases section and it's not an obvious link on the front page. Most of the time you can get to the releases from a link in the sidebar or in the description further down the front page of the project, usually.
What do you find obtuse?
They do a lot of things. That has inherent complexity. Hiding complexity has a cost too - a loss of features, accessibility of them or information.
Scroll down and you should see the README file content. Projects usually describe themselves and usage info in them.
On the releases page you can see releases, a description, and download files. The latest stable is marked with a green label. Pre-release means test versions - you can skip this.
view more: next βΊ