Took me a bit to decide which instance to join and get setup, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. The registration process needs some feedback instead of just spinning if you’re not yet approved though I saw this is being worked on.

It has been clunky to reference other communities or search for them, I keep finding links that send me to another instance and then I’m not logged in there.

Also, there seem to be a lot of duplicate communities. It would be nice to have some kind of system for groups of communities. So that they can link together as a super-community (if agreed by their mods) and if you subscribe to one you get them all. Or maybe over time the most popular ones will become apparent.

Overall its been neat to get setup over here and see the beginning of something.

Garlic stuffed olives, cashews and also edamame.

I think they are great steamed and then with some salt and togarashi.

The factory must grow!

I put “jerboa@lemmy.ml” in the search area, it took a while (a few minutes), but eventually it showed up. I think it takes a while to sync/federate in the background if you’re the first person on the instance to subscribe to that community.

Edit: nevermind, this doesn’t seem to be working when I tried again… :-/

As a workaround, if you login with your account on the web site you could subscribe to your desired communities and then they’ll show up in jerboa.

To view a community on another server from your server, in the search box of the web site put “!community@otherserver.com” for example !foss@beehaw.org and after a few seconds it should show up and then you can click on it and subscribe.

I also think option B is a good idea. It could split up the load of a large topic.

As for maintaining the distributed philosophy of Lemmy, I think it could possibly work by moderators of each community vote on/approve other members of a super community, like and alliance or union. They may want to agree on a standard set of rules. Then if you subscribe to one, it can pick up the others automatically. And if a community/moderators go rogue then the members of the super community moderators could vote to expel that community.

This keeps it still mostly simple/automatic for most users while allowing for a decentralized way to group communities and handle bad actors.

Not sure how feasible it is on the technical side or how it would fit into ActivityPub. But hopefully we find some solution to these fractured communities.

I wondered this a bit too and share your concerns. On one hand I like the idea of populating Lemmy with more content, particularly for niche communities, but there’s also a good amount of unique posts here that might get drowned out.

If it’s a network printer and it lists Postscript and/or PCL6 support on its specs it should be good for at least basic printing. I still use my Brother laser though, haven’t needed to replace it yet.

I’m on the Pixel 7, I’m pretty happy with it.