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.
So what’s exactly a problem? I might be able to help - I struggled with some stuff here as well.
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.
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/gamedev@lemmy.ml
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 !gamedev@lemmy.ml 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)
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.
