Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don’t understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I’m in Lemmy.world, I can click “instances” and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.

And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I’m supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?

And finally, is there a search per community possibility?

Sorry, I’m still confused about these.

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

    Thanks, that’s very kind!

    Someone shared this link: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/4331/The-growing-list-of-subreddits-going-to-be-dark-but

    If I understand this correctly, that’s a list of communities I should be able to subscribe to. I can visit https://lemmy.ml/c/atheism and https://lemmy.ml/c/gamedev, but they open as a new (?) lemmy to which I am not logged in. When I try to find them via ‘Communities’, I get “No results”, so I cannot subscribe.

    So it feels like some parts of the network are inaccessible (or even invisible, the internal serach does not show these two examples) and I don’t know why.

    • CoachDomEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Right! I know exactly what it is!

      So here is what happens when you open " https://lemmy.ml/c/gamedev " - it opens the gamedev community that is hosted on the lemmy.ml instance but also it’s opening it as if you are accessing it from lemmy.ml instance.

      If you format the link like this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/[email protected]

      you will be taken to this community, from this instance but you will be accessing it through your instance. There is a better way, supposedly, which will mean you can access lemmy through your instance and search for [email protected] and it should show you this community and you will be able to access through your instance, but it doesn’t work for me like it doesn’t work for you. I reckon it’s some kind of bug.

      After you successfully subscribed to this community, its easy accessing it from now on, as it will show in the right hand side (subscribed tab)

      Hope it helps (please correct me anybody if I’m wrong)

      • @[email protected]English
        0•1 year ago

        If you format the link like this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/[email protected]

        I changed the link according to my home instance: https://lemmy.click/c/[email protected]

        Result: 404: couldnt_find_community

        Same for https://lemmy.click/c/[email protected]

        But https://lemmy.click/c/[email protected] does work. I’m not subscribed/pending to any of these three.

        This is consistent with the internal search (Communities). I can find and visit [email protected], but not the other two hosted at the same instance.

        • CoachDomEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          I see what you mean - I have similar results. So I can access through my instance, the gamedev & lemmy community (on the lemmy.ml instance) but not the atheism. If I try through your instance (lemmy.click) it doesn’t work for gamedev & atheism, but it still works with lemmy community.

          Maybe it’s just some kind of bug? This is all still pretty new, so it might that some connections are not made yet.

          • CoachDomEnglish
            0•1 year ago

            It seems that lemmy.ml is under most pressure right now because all the people abandoning the reddit-ship. It might be because of that.

              • CoachDomEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Found the solution!

                So here is how it works: if there was no subscription made from anyone from your instance to this particular community, it might not show up straight up in your search bar. What you have to do is the following: Copy the remote link which looks like this: [email protected] Includes an exclamation mark, name of the community then @ followed by the instance name

                Then you go to search bar and make sure that you have “all” in every possible dropdown. I had Community in the type dropdown and look at the difference before and after changing it to all:

                I hope they fix this bug