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?
slrpnk.net has some fantastic budding communities about living life more ecologically. Also some nice tech stuff – do give it a look!
!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz looks interesting.
!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one
!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one
Thanks, we’ll give it a go
!cats@midwest.social is the long running cat-pic community.
Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?
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.
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…)
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!
!thescarydoor@kbin.social is a Futurama subreddit that I am shamelessly self-promoting. I hope that’s okay.
Edit: I don’t know how to link it properly, I guess.
Subscribed! For people on the lemmy side, just searching for https://kbin.social/m/thescarydoor should have it come up.
To make a system agnostic link, you do it [like this](/c/thescarydoor@kbin.social) for Lemmy. Not sure if kbin has javascript URL rewriting, not tried it. Those URLs also don’t work in Jerboa atm. Gonna take a bit before all the papercuts get solved.
Does this work: !thescarydoor@kbin.social
Try 2: thescarydoor@kbin.social
Not really, from lemmy.ml it ends up being a hyperlink over to the other website instead of a local community reference.
