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.
If you format the link like this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml
I changed the link according to my home instance: https://lemmy.click/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml
Result: 404: couldnt_find_community
Same for https://lemmy.click/c/atheism@lemmy.ml
But https://lemmy.click/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml 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 lemmy@lemmy.ml, but not the other two hosted at the same instance.
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.
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.
Right, it seems you are not the only one: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/56815
Probably just a kink that will be ironed out soon enough!
