What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse?
What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse?
Personally i'm looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.
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I wouldnt describe it as niche, but Pathfinder 1st Edition.
I created a Pathfinder community yesterday, just started posting to it https://lemmy.ml/c/pathfinder
Heya I made a community for that just today! https://lemmy.wizjenkins.com/c/pathfinder1e
Subbed, though as a newb to Lemmy it's a bit difficult.
Since wizjenkins isn't subbed by my server,
[email protected]was not showing up for me. I had to hand-build the/c/[email protected]into my lemmy.ml.I feel like I'm either missing something, or it's something that lemmy could do slightly better.
You can post my URL into your Lemmy instance search box and it will add it to the list of communities on your server. Super unintuitive since it doesn't show you that it did that, but I discovered that doing that or getting a post on a community and posting that in the search would let you subscribe to the community.
Honestly community discovery is a super pain point right now. If I hadn't set up my own instance I don't know if I would have easily figured it out.
Actually did that and got zero results in lemmy.ml. Which was baffling to me.
The other way that works is clicking your name and then clicking the community in your "Moderates" box. Which proved to me that this instance can see your instance. If seeing your username wasn't enough for that.
Hmm that is odd. I wonder is that is some slowness in lemmy.ml since they are overloaded causing the federation to slow down. The server can be set to have a limit of federation workers, so if all of those are busy getting updates from servers it might not show up.
That's a guess though since I haven't dug into the codebase and there aren't really any architecture diagrams of how Lemmy is constructed.
Looks like I have to explicitly look for "All" and not "Communities" for some reason. "All/All" instead of "Communities/All"
Did you change the search options from "Communities" to "All"?
....no. That does work. But why? When you search on the "Communities" page it automatically sets the category to "Communities".
Yeah, definitely a papercut I expect we'll see a lot of users hit. Early days yet, and more dev manpower needed. I'm learning TypeScript and Rust as fast as I can to help out xD
Is it a bug, or defined behavior for a reason I just don't quite grok yet?
I'm a typescript vet, and if I really stick to lemmy I can see myself trying to help out a bit... but I also get about 4 hours of sleep a night, so it won't be soon ;)
I think it's defined behavior because the idea (sort of from mastodon I guess???) is that there's the local instance and it's communities, and then the federated world. Presumably some people want to ?maybe? stay close to home? It's def a techie way of thinking, like having your own internal wiki, and then knowing about wikipedia say.
It made sense to me because I already worked it out for mastodon, but otherwise I can see how that's confusing.
Hmm... Weird. I kinda figured the "Local/Subscriptions/All" toggle would be what defined if I'm checking Federated, and not the "Community/Comments/Posts/All" toggle. I understand the "URL" option if I want to search for a URL. I guess maybe it treats a federated community as a URL even if it's typed as a community?
I'm on Mastadon as well, and for some reason never tripped up on this. But I'm not sure I've sought out any remote communities in Mastadon like that.
lol! What format are you using? The reddit-like link format? That's standard markdown I think.
Maybe you could poke the admins over on https://pathfinder.social/ to make a community for that. They're still in the process of setting up shop
Don't really get to play much tabletop but I love the owlcat games, so yes to more pathfinder please