What are some great communities to follow that are not on lemmy.ml or beehaw
The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere.
With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?
To make a system agnostic link, you do it [like this](/c/[email protected]) for Lemmy. Not sure if kbin has javascript URL rewriting, not tried it. Those URLs also don't work in Jerboa atm. Gonna take a bit before all the papercuts get solved.
funnily this does not create a hyperlink (atleast on vivaldi) and if I enter that in ALL search the only result is your comment :D. Guess we are all still learning this.
Hey Art- how's that gig at kruger industral smoothing? Lol. Anyway I just got here from reddit and the first thing I was looking for was the equivalent of /r/guitars. Is your server federated with lemmy.ml? I can't seem to subscribe...
Edit - i figured it out! Someone has to search for your link in their instances search at least once. I guess that was me! Kinda fun being on the first wave of reddit refugees.
/r/guitar gave a great example of everything not to do in an online guitar enthusiast forum, at least from a mod perspective. You won't find that bullshit at /c/guitars as long as i have anything to do with it, we just vibe and talk shop.
I just started https://sh.itjust.works/c/vtubers. I'm part of a small community of VTubers, and hoping to meet more people and make friends through Lemmy as well.
thanks for making these relative links, so they can work across instances, but... they don't actually work on a given instance until that community is first accessed there through search.
eg, your dev community worked for me (here on lemmy.ml) because someone else here already accessed it, but your news one was 404 until after I searched for https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/c/news on lemmy.ml to make it learn about it.
despite the amazing work over the last years there is still lots more to be improved :)
(i just accepted an invitation to become an admin here to help the two main devs be able to spend more time developing and less time moderating...)
for now, if you want to promote your instances communities to users on other big instances like lemmy.ml, i recommend searching for each community URL on various instances (login is not required for this) to make it easier for newbies there to click your relative links and subscribe.
Hah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄
No need to compete! I'm self-hosting my own instance in any case, so I thought I might as well make communities for things I'm interested in. I've also subbed to every other gamedev community I've come across so far...
It would be really neat if there were a lemmy feature to easily co-promote related communities, maybe even give users an easy way to see them all in one feed.
How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?
If the communities haven't synced to your instance yet, then you can prompt the instance to sync them by copying and pasting them into your instance's search page. Unfortunately lemmy doesn't do this automatically when you visit the URL, at least not yet.
Once the communities are synced, then you should be able to just click the links to visit them and subscribe from there.
Go to your instance, click ok search and paste each one in there, then you can just access them like regular subreddits. If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.
Something I haven't been able to wrap my head around, do I need a username on each instance for federated instances? If not, how does one participate in communities in other instances? I'm with lemmy.ml, but if I want to interact with a post on beehaw, how do I do that?
I think it works like this: each account belongs to an instance which is your home instance. You can go to other instances to interact with their communities, but your profile (where your history is) is on your home instance. The only difference I’ve notice is that, posting on your home instance then your post is just username, but on away instances it’s username@homeinstance. Otherwise it seems to work the exact same as interacting with communities on your home instance. But I’ve only just signed up so I am making guessing!
Think of this like email, you sign up to a mail provider (gmail, yahoo, fastmail, etc) or even if you're feeling up to it run you own email server with you own domain. You can then use that account to send emails to anyone regardless of which provider they picked and anyone can send you email too.
Lemmy (and ActivityPub, the underlying protocol) works the same. ActivityPub under the hood even uses the same concept of an inbox and outbox. You pick your provider and you can comment, post, etc. to anywhere regardless of which instance the other users or community is on.
If you see a post on another instance (e.g. Beehaw) you can just comment in the webui or app and it'll just work.
You only need one username for each group of federated servers/instances.
Click Communities at the top, then click All under List of communities. that should list all communities known to lemmy.ml. If a community is not known, you would need to search for it (eg. [email protected]).
There are a lot of communities to discover on kbin.social's magazines , I have also made my own community for Buddhism, although I'm not sure how many people here are really interested in that.
Just chipping in to promote my own lemmy instance: I created [email protected] and communities for the other 30 MLB teams to replace the subreddits we left behind.
I think so - if you search for those links on your kbin instance, I believe they should show up as magazines and you can subscribe to them the same way.
Don't click the links, copy them into the search bar on your instance. You may need to search for it twice for it to show up. (definitely not too intuitive, I hope it'll improve) >
Someone said you can format links so that login is not required to subscribe. I still don’t totally understand how all this works. The example they gave was /c/[email protected]
I haven't found a good pro wrestling community, so I figured I'd try and start something. No idea what I'm doing but we'll get there. Link for anyone interested: https://midwest.social/c/wrestling
For some reason, I keep getting 404 errors on these trying to approach them from my instance :/. Hopefully just a temporary bug and not that my instance is defederated from it or something.
we're just getting started so you've either been waiting your whole life for this instance, or you're glad it's on someone else's rack.
PopHeads is for, well pop music-heads. and i've no clue how to link it so it works for everyone. that's a regular web link, apparently [email protected] will work better for some.
the instance also just tipped up a meme community and plans to build out artist communities as well. the first is for taylor swift, so yeah, our mod buttons say 'hater' on them.
I'm going to shamelessly plug my community I started lemmy.ml/c/indiecountry it's a space to show off some of your favorite country music and maybe convince people not all country music is what you hear on the radio. So far it's just me but everyone is invited