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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.


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let's spread the love so other instances/communities can be discovered easier

here are a few I recommend:

!retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

!steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

!hockey@lemmy.ca

!moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OT: In Jerboa (lemmy app), why does clicking those community links open in a browser?

My understanding is that if I want to engage with a community on another instance, I need to "go to" that community from my own instance.. right?

But when Jerboa opens the community in a browser, I can't subscribe or anything since at that point I'm "on" the other instance, which of course has no idea who I am.

[–] psudo@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For Jerboa, if it's not on one of the instances it is set to open, it'll default to your browser.

They're working on expanding it past their default list, but to enable those long press on Jerboa > App Info > Open by default > toggle the enable button and turn on all the links.

Those instances will now open in Jerboa.

[–] sup@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yep, just did that it works great, but will only work for the included domains.

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[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

same thing happens to me in a web browser and in the ios app (mlem)

probably just one of those early-tech things the devs need to work through and find a better implementation

it's a bit cumbersome, but you have to copy the text of the community and search for it from your own instance's search box

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I hear you -- thanks! I guess I need to figure out how to copy that link text in Jerboa, haha.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Unapologetic shill time:

🪴 Plants

🏺 Archaeology & Related

🌎 Geography

Ya'll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎

Check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world for new communities that pop up. :)

[–] wit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmy seems to be such an amazing instance. Science based. It is sad that it doesn't have as many users as I had hoped.. Science ftw.

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[–] s3rvant@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be nice to see a new home for Tabletop Game Design; much enjoyed the discussions around both role playing and board/card games alike.

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[–] yeti@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

The big things I’ve been missing here are a horror community and a synthwave/outrun/vaporwave aesthetics community. I might have to just make my own.

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I created lotrmemes@midwest.social for those of you that like lotr memes

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[–] cities@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I still don't quite understand how to subscribe to other communities on this thing.

[–] vipaal@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I did the following on Jerboa

  • save this post (we'll be revisiting this a few times)
  • go to the search function that is indicated by the bulleted list icon
  • enter the community name (without the @... part)
  • there'll be a few results
  • tap on them, see the posts if you want, and tap the subscribe button and see that it shows joined
  • go to saved posts, repeat until subscribed to every community you want

Having said that, there's probably a simpler way to do this. Still early in the learning process.

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[–] slice@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I will normaly just go to the community on the instance of the community and then on the right side (don't know about mobile) there is:

""" You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosting@slrpnk.net """ on my instance you also have to add to the search that all servers schould be searched. And then it works out.

Also some of links when I start brwosing the fediverse from my instance also bring me to the community without leaving my home instance but i didn't figured this out jet.

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[–] uthredii@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

https://programming.dev/ is a programming focused server. It has communities for a few different languages. It's not too popular yet but I hope it will be in the future.

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[–] swnt@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://feddit.de has a few German language communities of you're interested in such stuff.

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Machen wir das hier auch wie auf reddit, dass das Erwähnen eines deutschen Unters sofort alle deutschen Nutzer aus allen Ecken herbeiströmen lässt?

[–] hundertzwoelf@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Verstanden, Sir.

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[–] curlygirl@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I made !curlyhair@lemmy.world as an alternative to r/curlyhair. You can also search for new communities at !newcommunities@lemmy.world.

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[–] Limeade@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm really hoping https://kbin.social/m/folklore takes off, but at the moment that server has disabled federation because they're having trouble scaling up to handle all the new traffic. The creator translates a lot of German folklore into English and seems very passionate about folklore and mythology.

Today I also learned about !germany@feddit.de for English language discussion about Germany.

[–] sigh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If kbin is able to scale up, will we be able to interact with kbin through lemmy, like we do with other lemmy communities?

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[–] Deltec@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah is a piracy focused instance. Pretty dope, plus I didn't get stuck in registration limbo they just have a basic sign up.

[–] bhunterw1@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I made !hololive@reddthat.com as an alternative to r/hololive

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does anyone know how to add new instances to the Lemmy Community Browser? It doesn't have the one I'm from nor the communities from it. Are they automatically scraping communities somehow or is there a dev we can ask them to add new communities and instances to?

https://browse.feddit.de/

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[–] Devgard@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

if you're interested in seeing new communities, visit here

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[–] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll shill mine, a community for Manchester United fans

!reddevils@lemmy.world

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[–] TenNinetythree@vlemmy.net 6 points 2 years ago

!conlang@lemmygrad.ml for the conlangers out there.

!esperanto@sopuli.xyz por la internacia lingvo.

!ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone as a TTRPG community

!main@feddit.de als Deutsche Community in Lemmy

[–] Hecadee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Well this just introduced me to a new community. I've always wondered about putting ideas regarding sustainability into practice...

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[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I suppose it's my time to shine! (Self promotion time)

!board_games@lemmy.ca !tabletop_rpgs@lemmy.ca Drop on in!

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[–] plactagonic@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel little bit like cheater - I am not on beehaw that often.

I mostly post on homebrewing community on https://sopuli.xyz/c/homebrewing

Trying to grow it because I loved brewing subreddits.

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[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know why I can see a ChatGPT sub-lemmy on lemmy.ml but can’t on feddit.uk?

I made a new account on feddit.uk to help spread load from lemmy.ml but I can’t see this and some other specific communities that I was subscribed to on the other instance.

Iv tried search all communities etc not just local

[–] croobat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That particular community has probably never been fetched by your instance of choice, after searching it wait a couple of seconds and it should appear. From that moment onwards anyone who searches it from your instance should have no problem to find it.

[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm gave it 5 mins and kept trying, didn’t change anything Lemmy.ml is having 404 issues right now though so may be related to that

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[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

!hentai@lemmynsfw.com

[–] themollusk215@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I created a Grateful Dead community on lemmy.world, we've already got a few people participating and I'd love to see it grow

https://lemmy.world/c/gratefuldead !gratefuldead@lemmy.world

[–] Nilesse@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

!cats@midwest.social
!boardgames@feddit.de

(can't figure out the links...)
It's certainly something to see all the different instance names :)

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[–] MilliaStrange@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

196@lemmy.world

Post before leaving~

[–] StrawberryCake@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

If you are Italian, you can use https://reddit.it for basically anything italy

[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Also be sure to x-post these to !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca.

Also search for stuff at !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

[–] karce@wizanons.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just made a new magical community! It's aim is for magic users and psychonauts (psychedelics). !magic@wizanons.dev.

We're inclusive, friendly, and magic themed! Feel free to subscribe and post!

[–] Username@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

!sailing!sailing@lemmy.world

My husband created this for sailing enthusiasts and it’d be awesome to see it get more active. You don’t have to be an experienced sailor. Just enthusiasm for the hobby/sport!

[–] QuestionMark@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's a small community but I like !engrish@vlemmy.net (I really think we need a better way to link communities.)

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We just need to understand the convention

Instead of r/<community name> we have !<community name>@<instance name>

I think it's doable

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah but instead of just being able to click the link and subscribe you have to copy/paste the link in to the search bar on an entirely different page and then make sure all your search filters are set correctly and then maybe wait a bit if no one has accessed it before from your instance and then you can click subscribe. It needs to be way easier than that, like with RES you could just hover over a linked subreddit and click subscribe without ever even leaving the page.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

looks like the devs are aware, hopefully this gets prioritized because it really is confusing for new users

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/369

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[–] BloodSoakedDoilies@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, let's say I want to subscribe to one of these, and I'm using Jerboa. How tf do I do that??

[–] ZippyZippyZappyZappy@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hit the 3 lines next to the Home button on the bottom row. That lets you search for Lemmy communities. So, if you search "moviesandtv", you'll see the movies and TV community that OP mentioned.

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