Hello,
First of all thank you so much to the developers of jerboa, the app is simple and responsive (coming from reddit it’s a huge plus), and it just works!
One thing I am personally missing is the ability to easily discover communities. You can search by keyword and that works great, but I would rather have an exhaustive list of them all, especially as I am new here and I might be missing on some of them because I did not enter the right keywords.
The alternative i found is to search for each vowel ‘a’, ‘e’ etc… because all communities names have at least a vowel, but it would be more practical to have an actual listing
What do you think?
I’d like to add to this request that we allow searches by instance, or be able to view all communities within a particular instance. I sometimes hear about a new instance and want to see all the communities within it. Or I’m curious what new communities lemmy.ml might have and want to quickly view all their instances. Initially I tried to search “@lemmy.ml”, hoping that would work, but alas it did not. Just a thougt that feels related to this one!
I think that is the main issue: search does not search the tag/url properly. If I enter the exact tag into the search engine (something like [email protected]), then it should be able to pull up the community easily. As of right now, there are some communities I have not been able to join even though I know the tag/url
I don’t think the Communities list (as mentioned by @Iballl) exists on Jerboa, I can’t see it anyway. The only real option on the app for now is to just browse All and join whatever takes your fancy. Though the browser version on mobile is quite good too and you can access it there
There already is a Lemmy Community Browser which contains a lot of the federated instances.
Also, you might be interested in Lemmy Directory.
Edit: sorry, didn’t realise you meant browsing from within Jerboa. Nevertheless, maybe the links above can help you around for now :)
generally being able to search for communities across instances would be nice
Doesn’t https://browse.feddit.de/ work decently?
It does on PC but not within the app. Although I could just use the PC to discover new communities and subscribe to them
A full “exhaustive” list would never be able to get every community on every instance, due to the nature of federation and how they propagate to each other. I’m sure that Search will eventually see most instance/comms, as they have to be known to each other which will come with time (probably not long).
I might have misunderstood you (or maybe it’s different on PC), but there’s a list of all Lemmy communities available already: click on the Communities word at the top of the page:
I was talking of the app Jerboa, not the Web browser (i assume that’s the Web browser you are showing). But yes I could use the Web browser for this
No worries, but I believe they’re referring to the jerboa app specifically. As far as I can find there isn’t a way in the app.
There is a “3rd party” tool available on the Feddit.de instance, called browse.feddit.de. It’s basically a full list of all communities on all instances. There you can also see what instance federates with other instances.
It’s not available in the app unfortunately, but you can at least somewhat discover what communities are available that way.
I hope this helps 😊
Is there an easy way to subscribe to a community outside of my instance once I found one on browse.feddit.de, preferably on my phone?
Edit: replaced sub with community
I think if someone else in your instance has subscribed to a community on that other instance, then you should be able to search up your desired community in the app itself. Otherwise the url needs to be something like myinstance/c/newcommunity@otherinstance, that will let you browse to the community from within your instance and then you can subscribe.
Is this possible to do though the app? I saw a regional instance list in another thread and wanted to join it, however whenever I type in [email protected] nothing shows up. Do I need to add the myinstance/c/ ahead of it?
Don’t think it’s possible in the app yet unfortunately.
Ideally, the browser.feddit.de should have clickable links. Then on Android, Jerboa should register intent of such links and ask if the user would like to subscribe.
Copy and pasting the name in my instances search bar works for me.
Yes you can! You search via the communities tab on navigation bar.
See my poorly made instruction screenshot. Keep in mind, it might take a second based on your instance.
But when I search for Python on Jerboa, I only get [email protected] as only result, but when I search on browse.feddit.de I get [email protected] (among others).
Edit: Jerboa interprets these links as email addresses. Can I do anything to change that? What should a link to a community or an instance look like?
Fun fact, you are on the same instance as me.
But it’s probably because no other user on our instance has joined a community on sh.itjust.works. That means that federation is possible (meaning, data can be exchanged) but no data is actually exchanged. Since there is “no need”. So the moment, the first one user takes the plunge and joins a community on sh.itjust.works, data will be exchanged and this “problem” is resolved.
