This is my first day in the Fediverse, and I’m building out my sub list in Lemmy right now. I noticed that searching for Communities only looks within the instance that I’m logged into. Is there any easy way to search across all available Lemmy servers for Communities?

  • @[email protected]English
    9•1 year ago

    So, that works in a funny way, and this is one of the quirks that belong to the current state of the fediverse. I see you are on lemmy.world, so you should not be impacted that much by it, but still… Let me explain.

    You can easily search for all communities in lemmy.world (your “home” instance) by switching the toggle in your search screen. By default, you can’t search for communities on other instances, UNLESS someone on lemmy.world has already done so (or, I’m not sure about this one, is subscribed to that community). If you do so, lemmy.world will federate with that community and keep it “in the loop”.

    If you should stumble on a community that you want to subscribe to, but it is not yet federated by lemmy.world, you can just use !communityname@instancename.ltd to search for it. The search takes some time, or you need to try a second time. If you subscribe, that community will be federated with your home server.

    Not that big of a deal for instances like lemmy.world as I said, but a bigger thing for small instances (like my own).

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Tried it, failed to get it running! Do you have a place where I can ask for assistance? A “home” post or a specific community for it? By any chance? :)

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year ago

            I’m getting this error from the docker container when I try to do the initial run:

            root@lemmy-server:~/lemmybot# docker run --name lemmy-subscriber-bot --restart always -dt --env 'LEMMY_USERNAME=subscriber_bot' --env 'LEMMY_PASSWORD=mypwd123' --env 'LEMMY_DOMAIN=waste-of.space' lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot .

c6bce2ed69f7a9745e7b98157b5765d20ddebe22cd1b9e5b0558a9057bb7b71f
docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: exec: ".": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown.
              • @[email protected]English
                2•1 year ago

                Oh! Now it is running, I think. Should I just leave it on, or put it on for a few hours per day? or just once for a few hours?

                sorry for the wall of questions! overly enthusiastic about Lemmy and the community that makes it great!

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      How do I find and interact with things inside the fediverse but outside of lemmy? Like mastodon for example. Do I need to make a mastodon account or is there a way for me to see and interact with it using my lemm.ee account?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        If lemm.ee allows federation, you can basically do it from within the lemm.ee instance. You should be able to discover and communicate as for a lemmy post.

        However, I’m not a Mastodon user, so I have not tried it.

        What I do know is that you can’t surf to a mastodon server (eg. https://mastodon-belgium.be/home), and log in with your lemm.ee account. You need to get lemm.ee to federate with the specific mastodon server. So not sure how to do that for Mastodon. For kbin you can do the same things as community’s, but they are called differently on kbin.

        No expert, YMMV.