I’ve already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances.

For science topics, mander.xyz has a lot of good ones set up, and !solarpunk@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net has been great!

edit: for new users - you can type ! to begin autofilling a community, even for ones on other instances, like I did for the solarpunk community above. It may take a few seconds for the autofill results to show up if you have a slow connection like me.

  • Beto@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    2 years ago

    I launched lemmy.studio today, with the intent of hosting some music communities (music production, genres, different media, DAWs, etc.).

      • Beto@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Feel free to create a community for Ableton there, or if you don’t want to moderate it I’m happy to create it as well!

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I just wrote out two comments that were deleted - Imo you shouldn’t be able to edit or respond to a deleted post if it’s not going to work.

          I made an Ableton group on lemmy.ml a few days ago…doesn’t seem like it’s listed though. I’ll probably just delete it if you’re going to operate a music specific instance

        • orbit@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          While I’m really liking Beehaw, one of the caveats is that users cannot create new communities so I may need to just create another account to assist with making new communities. I did just sub to lemmy@lemmy.studio however

      • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I tried to edit a deleted comment - not sure where it went.

        I made an Ableton user group on lemmy.ml a couple days ago - assuming you’re keeping a music based instance running, I’ll probably just delete it. (Also, my group still doesn’t show up in searches - in the future if I want to get one listed, how would I do that?)

        • orbit@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I was able to find it my hitting that top-right search magnifying glass

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    Gotta plug my instance :)

    PopHeads and fans of pop music rejoice, I have an entire instance just for you. Come and post all of your pop music theories, favorite tracks, costumes, memes, snarky comments, and all other related things. Hell, create a new community if you like!

    Will be creating more as interest demands, or create one of your own, we know there’s already a few fans of Camila Cabello there and I know I love CRJ :)

    Oh, and to ease the stress, my registration is currently open for any lurkers

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        That’s what I thought when I set it up, I could either go broad with a few things I like, but I think if we’re going to really see lemmy expand we need to see topical servers. People are welcome to register on my server if they like, but I view it more as a “import this to yours instance to enhance your communities”.

    • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Ficsit approves this efficient method of gathering new recreational listening material to motivate greater productivity 🏅

    • zalack@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Is there a guide for how to register on multiple Lemmy instances? I am registered here, but noticed that I can’t subscribe to communities on other instances? I assume I need to register there as well, but how do I get my subscriptions on both instances to funnel into the same place?

      Thanks! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        151·
        2 years ago

        Nope you can subscribe to other lemmy instances. You just need to know their link. For example, if you want to follow my Taylor Swift community and become a full blown swiftie like me, you can do this: (Make sure All, All, and All are selected when searching)

        • kethali@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          While fine for me, I thnk this is going to be one of the bigger hurdles for newer users. It’s not the most obvious, really. I’m not sure what could help, maybe some bookmarklet exists to make it simpler to subscribe via the instance you’re using?

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Completely agree, it’s a major pain point. I’ve opened some issues on Github around it. Reddit had a manifesto that joining communities should the easiest thing to do, and we need to do the same here.

          • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Something very similar exists for Mastodon in the form of FediAct so it’s probably only a matter of time until someone makes a browser extension for Lemmy.

        • iod@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Small tip: you don’t have to search with an exact link there, simply searching for “Swift” would’ve found your instance.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Only if your server already knows about the community. If you’re the first person on your server (more likely if your server or the one you are subscribing to are small) then you’ll need either the full URL or at least the !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech part.

    • Theroddd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Sounds fun! Looks fun! However I am having trouble subscribing. Nothing is found when I search. Now, I know you aren’t tech support but pointing me in the right direction and telling what I am doing wrong herr would be amazing.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Interesting. You can also try https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/c/popheads. On the website I know there’s a bug where it doesn’t show a loading spinner either, so it may take a few seconds after clicking search for it to show up even though it looks like it’s not doing anything.

        Lemmy.ml is also inundated with new members right now, they’re actually 404ing for me right now, so they may be having issues connecting.

        • Theroddd@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Thank you for the fast response. It’s really appreciated. When I follow your link I still cannot subscribe. I get “not ogged in” whe. Trying to subscribe through the communities tab. Or I get the enter thing into the search bar prompt.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Hmmm, I haven’t done it through the app before, let me get back to you on this. I’ve been having some troubles with the app too…

              • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Of course! This is new to me, we’re all just getting started. There are going to be growing pains all over the place, hell maybe I didn’t set something up right. It’s new, we’re having fun :)

              • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Oh don’t go to the link, paste it into the search bar from your logged-in instance. (The other one should also have worked, but again lemmy.ml is a bit slow and may be having issues).

                This is how it looked to me from the website, make sure “All, All, and All” are selected

  • Rhabuko@feddit.deEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    I’m on feddit.de, which is a German server whith a friendly community. There’s also feddit.it and feddit.dk for Italian or danish people. Would be cool if we see more European feddits, that work together and help each other out.

    And for my favorite communities that aren’t on lemmy.ml

    !gaming on beehaw.org and !ich_iel (which is the German version of me_irl) on feddit.de

    • Heimchen@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is really something the proprietary alternatives lack behind. I just digg the option to be able to follow a lemmy community from my mastodon account on my phone.

  • beached@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    2 years ago

    How does one follow a community from another instance. for instance, beehaw’s gaming community I would like to follow, but when i am there, it makes be create a separate account.

    • Kamirose@beehaw.orgEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      In addition to what @Barbarian@lemmy.ml mentioned about changing the filter and searching, you can link it from your own instance like so:

      https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming@beehaw.org

      You can also grab the URL to any community or post on another instance, return to your own instance, and paste the URL into the search bar. If you’re the first person to ever search for that server it might not find anything at first, but it’ll fetch the data and probably work in a couple minutes.

      • 1rre@lemmy.org.ukEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I think you may be able to use relative links, eg:
        gaming@beehaw.org

        ^ That one is done with [gaming@beehaw.org](/c/gaming@beehaw.org)
        I don’t think !gaming@beehaw.org works alone though?

    • Barbarian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Go to Communities at the top, change the filter from “Local” to “All” and search for “Gaming”.

      If you’re the first one who wants to register to a community from this server (not the case here) it’s slightly more complex.

  • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
    219·
    2 years ago

    I quite like that Beecaw doesn’t federate the Tankies.

    I don’t really need a genocide denying group ofauthoritarians in my face first thing in the morning.

      • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        2 years ago

        GenZedong and other communities shilling on lemmygrad. Some of these accounts post multiple pro-china, pro-russia, anti-usa articles per hour. I’m all for open discussion, but accounts like that are just propaganda pumpers

        To be clear, not everyone and everything on lemmygrad is a tankie shill. We need places that are safe for discussion of political ideologies. But I mention lemmygrad because that’s where the tankies seem to be flocking

      • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
        64·
        2 years ago

        You’re going to need a lot more of those to live up to the great Reactionary Counter-Revolutionaries so widely admired by tankies.

        • m532@lemmy.mlEnglish
          22·
          2 years ago

          Reactionary counterrevolutionaries like you? You probably work for the monarchists.

  • bruhsoulz@kbin.social
    111·
    2 years ago

    lol wtf why is the comment bar all the way down here… anyways id like to see unixporn if it isnt here already :0.

    • comfy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      The first rule of moretankie196 is you do not talk about the first rule.

      The second rule of moretankie196 is you DO NOT talk about the second rule.

      • ScarletCoconut@beehaw.org
        1010·
        2 years ago

        Tankies, when you don’t like the owning class exploiting workers, so you make the state exploit workers ☹️

        • m532@lemmy.ml
          21·
          2 years ago

          Radlibs, when you don’t know what words mean, so you make up a meaning no one else understands :(

          • balerion@beehaw.org
            1·
            2 years ago

            You’re the ones who don’t understand that socialism means worker ownership of the means of production, not state ownership of the means of production.

    • Bricriu@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      How do I subscribe to that sopuli one, since it doesn’t show up in my local search results?

        • Bricriu@lemmy.oneEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          The search didn’t work for me, coming from lemmy.one. Didn’t even show a “no results” message. Copypastaing the whole URL worked, but that is a deeply wonky interface :(

          Thank you though! Subscribed.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            If you’re the first one to try to search for a community on your server, it seems to get a bit wonky. But if you try to search it again now, it will probably show fine.

      • comfy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Is there an option to do All search results instead of local?

  • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Tip: If you’re thinking about making a community, google it first, like this:

    Let’s say I want to make a community for dogs. I’ll google “c/dogs lemmy” and some variations just to be sure.

    This has been working for me. If it doesn’t come up, it probably doesn’t exist