"Lemmy Explorer" a new website to explore Lemmy communities and instances
"Lemmy Explorer" a new website to explore Lemmy communities and instances
Not mine, just cross-posting.
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This looks like a great resource! However, I'm having trouble subscribing to some lemmy communities on kbin. I tried copying the community name into the kbin magazine search but nothing is found. Do I just need to wait for federation issues to be fixed or is there something I need to do to "push" communication between different instances?
(Edit: I didn't even realize at first that this post is on beehaw. Looks like I still have some work to do getting acclimated to the fediverse.)On Kbin if the community you want isn't showing in the magazine list, what you need to do is go to the search bar that searches the whole site and type in the Lemmy community name followed by an @ followed by the instance name. For example: firefox@lemmy.ml
After searching it should come up and you can subscribe to it. It only shows up in the magazines list once someone on the instance subscribes to it, so if you are the first to subscribe to it you have to do a manual search first
It worked! Thank you so much!
I didn't realize that searches for outside communities need to be done in the general search bar and not in the magazine search.I only see one search on my mobile view. Where is the general search bar located?
What I called the general search is the magnifying glass icon at the top of the page on mobile. To get to the magazine search you have to tap the general search then tap magazines on the next page.
I have the hamburger menu, which has a magnifying glass. There is no magazine option for me, and the general search seems to not find communities others haven't subscribed to yet :/ I know v0.17 has some issues, some of which only affect some users, maybe I'm some users. Or maybe I'm missing something.
Hmmm, it looks like you joined a different instance, "@infosec.pub" while I'm on "@kbin.social". I'm not sure how that is affecting things since I'm still trying to figure this out myself. You might need to ask for details on a local @infosec.pub community. I did find out that for this to work you have to get the syntax for the community you want to join exactly right in your search. For example, if you were searching for technology at beehaw you would have to search "technology@beehaw.org" without any leading @ or !.
Ah that makes sense. I did try !..., @..., full URL, and just the name. Oh, well. It's possible that that particular community chose not to federate, maybe? I'm not sure if it can be on the community level or only on the instance level. Either way, thank you so much for your help! Seriously appreciate it!
Yup! No worries! Glad you got it figured out!