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?

    • nysflyboy@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        lol i had the same issue, I’m getting all this federation stuff figured out too :)

        edit: i was so happy i got Art Vandelay as a username! George is my spirit animal

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 year ago

      Great idea, r/guitar never reached it’s true potential with a lack of clear direction target, I hope that one will work better

      • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        /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.

  • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
    13·
    1 year ago

    Here’s some of the communities on lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. They’re pretty small and quiet at the moment, but maybe they’ll grow a little over time:

    !dev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For software development
    !gamedev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For game development
    !compile@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For compiler development
    !games@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For video games
    !rns@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Deep Rock Galactic
    !fortnight@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Fortnight
    !twitch@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For twitch.tv
    !tech@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For general tech stuff
    !news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For world news

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
      18·
      1 year ago

      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 (login not required) for each community URL on various instances to make it easier for newbies there to click your relative links and subscribe.

      • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for this comment. That explains what I’ve seen when trying to do relative links to help people out.

      • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • TeaHands@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          Oh absolutely, I’ve got so many duplicates in my sub list and kinda love that it doesn’t matter!

          Seen some talk around of a potential feature where users can group related communities together for viewing purposes, but I expect it’ll be a while away if it ever happens. In the meantime there’s nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume), but that would rely on every mod of a similar place being as un-power-mad as yourself and reciproacting 😅

          • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
            3·
            1 year ago

            In the meantime there’s nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume)

            Well… Hopefully in the near future the UX for linking to communities can be improved, since right now the way things work makes it a pretty crappy user experience for anyone on an instance that hasn’t synced that community yet.

      • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
            4·
            1 year ago

            Hm, that’s surprising. I didn’t expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g. !news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.

            • Kas@feddit.uk
              2·
              1 year ago

              I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I’m trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.

              • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
                1·
                1 year ago

                I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I’m trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.

                I’m really not sure, but it sounds like these could be issues related to feddit.uk? I suggest asking about this on a community there, or messaging an admin of that instance.

      • InfiniWheel@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
          3·
          1 year ago

          If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.

          That’s actually not true! If you format the links like this: /c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com, like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they’re viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)

  • Mike@lemmy.ml
    121·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • Toebeans@sh.itjust.works
      131·
      1 year ago

      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!

      • BuxtonWater@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        You can also hide your home instance by using a display name I believe. Also new so only 77% sure.

    • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      1 year ago

      The short answer is no, you dont.

      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.

        • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
          81·
          1 year ago

          Nope, you only need one account. It works like email, it dosn’t matter if you’re on gmail, yahoo or fastmail, you can still send and receive emails from other providers. You can subscribe to communities on other instances and post comments or submit new posts regardless of which instance the community is on.

          • generalEdo@lemmy.fmhy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            Thanks for the reply, I think I got it now. What confused me was the “it’s like email” part. I understand I can send to/receive from yahoo, AOL etc. But I can’t log into them with my Gmail. So I was thinking I would need a sing-in for beehaw and others.

      • dotdot@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m wondering, does ActivityPub have a way to delete content such that the deletion is propagated to other instances?

        • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yeah it does, when you delete some content it creates a “delete” activity which is sent out to all the servers that content was shared with. Those instances should remove the content on their side too, of course there is no way to ensure the content that has been shared is deleted, but activitypub does have a mechanism to delete content that has been federated.

    • ketcham1009@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      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. Technology@beehaw.org).

      • _ed@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Good question! You can copy the text !cats@midwest.social, then click the magnifying glass at top right and search for the community.

        It should then come up in your search results, where you can visit from your own instance, and click to subscribe.

        • Evan@lemmy.mlMEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Mastodon suffers from similar annoyances. I feel like this system could be improved, it’s pretty confusing for beginners. I support frontends rewriting links, I suppose (though I suppose there is the tricky issue of deciding what links point to the fedi. Maybe “!cats@midwest.social” should not be a link…)

          • preston@possumpat.ioEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            I agree, the copy->search user experience for exploring the fediverse is pretty terrible. For Lemmy at least, maybe any community ! links should automatically try to resolve on your instance? I also wouldn’t mind an extra little popup on hover, letting you choose to follow the link through to the original instance or have it search/open on your home.

            • Mac@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Which is actually funny when you think about it because that would be integral to utilizing the benefits of the Fediverse.

              It will get figured out in time.

          • Mac@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            It doesn’t even work on mobile for me. I save posts for later to join on my desktop. Lol

          • _ed@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Most definitely, although with many of these projects its probably not a case of not wanting to make it easier, but simply that it hasnt been implemented yet. I generally tend to link so that people can check out the community being referred to -

        • timmytbt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          thanks, I got there in the end!

          when I searched for that text/link I’m saw posts that referenced !cats@midwest.social (hyperlinks), and when I was first trying it was going to the front page and asking me to login or create an account - fail

          but one of the posts that came up in the search had a different link … hovering over it showed https://sh.itjust.works/c/cats@midwest.social when I clicked on that one I could see cats@midwest.social … I could also see that I was still logged in as me, and there was an option to subscribe

          hopefully that helps others in this brave new world … long live Lemmy and so long Reddit!