what are some good communities NOT on beehaw.org or lemmy.ml?

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.

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.
- Yep, just did that it works great, but will only work for the included domains.
- omg thank you this solves like 80% of the issues I've had lol
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
- I hear you -- thanks! I guess I need to figure out how to copy that link text in Jerboa, haha.

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.

nice! I subscribed to !programming@programming.dev
Mandatory email when other instances have optional is a bit difficult for me to go through
- You don't have to create an account on the instance to subscribe to their communities.
  You can, for example, search for !programming@programming.dev to index that community from your home instance.
Been trying to sign up for a day now and havent been able to
- Spinning circle after clicking the Sign Up button? That has been my experience with multiple sites now.

Unapologetic shill time:

🪴 Plants

Houseplants !houseplants@mander.xyz
What's this Plant? !plantid@mander.xyz

🏺 Archaeology & Related

Archaeology !archaeology@mander.xyz
Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales !folklore@mander.xyz

🌎 Geography

Geography !geography@mander.xyz
Biodiversity !biodiversity@mander.xyz
Earth Science/Geosciences !earthscience@mander.xyz
Geospatial !geospatial@mander.xyz
Historic(al) Map Porn !old_maps@mander.xyz
Palaeoecology !palaeoecology@mander.xyz

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

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

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.
- There are... some of us!
- Only a matter of time. :)
- It's getting better! All the time! This was just posted yesterday.
nice instance!

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.

Don't worry it's not a competition! In fact a non-beehaw user would be helpful in suggesting communities that beehaw users might not aware of.

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

Think it needs to be posted as !lotrmemes@midwest.social in order for it to be clickable in certain clients, like Jerboa.
Edit: Well, I finally got the format right but the link crashed Jerboa. IDFK.
- It seems that with the influx of users there are server problems. Or it's a bug with the new jerboa update
- For me jerboa still opens them in browser every time :S
You have my bow.
- Hnnnnng, must... not... say... it
Thank you for making that. I loved that subreddit and now I can still get my fix. Loving the new memes about reddit.
The Middle-West-Earth

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

Machen wir das hier auch wie auf reddit, dass das Erwähnen eines deutschen Unters sofort alle deutschen Nutzer aus allen Ecken herbeiströmen lässt?
- Sie haben gerufen, der Herr?
- Zwingst du uns nu zu den 3-5 laut gerufenen Worten? Ich find das ja eher unnötig und provokant.
- Ich leiste auf jeden Fall meinen Beitrag!
- Ja?
- Verstanden, Sir.
- Jawohl!
- Natürlich!

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.

!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!

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.

If kbin is able to scale up, will we be able to interact with kbin through lemmy, like we do with other lemmy communities?
- When I first got here, kbin.social was interacting with Lemmy just fine. They turned on cloudflare DDoS protection and it broke their federation is my understanding. Fedia.io is a different kbin server that should be federating like normal. Try checking out !random@fedia.io.
- Yep! It should be almost exactly the same!

!hentai@lemmynsfw.com

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

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.
- Overall, this is the biggest issue with jerboa. Not being able to get to other communities on other instances makes discovery next to impossible
- Good on you giving useful instructions for everyone . I got stuck with the wrong order of instance then community and was confused for a while
- +1 Thanks for sharing this information! I know that there's going to be a bit of a learning curve for the new platform and I appreciate you helping us all out!
- that worked. I missed the sidebar button. I’m still not sure how to find it on ios app I downloaded but found it on web
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.
- it's when you format a link like this /c/community@instance, instead of the full url. Example Link so regardless of your particular server instance, that link will stay local, if the linked community is not yet synced (federated) it will 404 though, that will happen a lot for a the first few weeks of growing this service, particularly if you are on a smaller server that might be updating slower or is under strain.

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

Also search for stuff at !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

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

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

I got this:
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
- https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities
A community for new communities, how meta! And yeah, will come in handy

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

love the newcommunities idea, I subscribed!
- Appreciate it :)

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

https://lemmy.ml/c/chatgpt specifically

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.
- 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

196@lemmy.world

Post before leaving~

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.

I found these two vaporwave communities recently
https://beehaw.org/c/vaporwave@midwest.social
https://beehaw.org/c/vaporwave@lemmy.ml

I made !uraniumglass@lemmy.villa-straylight.social for collectors of uranium glass to show off their finds!

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.

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/

I'm having trouble with this too, except some communities in the instance show up, and some don't.
!animemidriff@lemmynsfw.com doesn't show up in the community browser, despite smaller comms made around the same period like !animefeet@lemmynsfw.com showing up just fine.
- So I've found that lemmyverse.net is more consistent and works much better than browse.feddit.de as a lemmy community browser
I also would like to know this
Yeah, I noticed something similar. And occasionally it seems like instances disappear from it. I noticed that beehaw communities showed up a few days ago, but they didn't today.
How old is your instance, are you sure it’s set up correctly? Are you visiting and subbing from your instance to others? I think all that helps. Our instance is also very new and it seems to be federated ok as far as I can tell. And with a lot of connecting to other communities I think our “All” feed is working.
- No idea, I didn't make it. Probably about a week old if I'd guess. I am visiting and subbing to other instances. The All feed seems to be working okay, too. It's federated as far as I can tell, but still doesn't appear in that Lemmy Community Browser site: https://browse.feddit.de/

beehaw.org

oops! I meant to type that instead of beehive, lol

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

!reddevils@lemmy.world

Nice to see sports people on Lemmy

For people interested in Permaculture! https://permies.com/forums

Thanks for posting this! What a great forum
Well this just introduced me to a new community. I've always wondered about putting ideas regarding sustainability into practice...

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

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

for some reason I can't enter from https://iusearchlinux.fyi @justdrop@iusearchlinux.fyi
- I've fixed the links, give it another go?

!visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space Is a fresh community for discussing everything Visual Novel related. Hope it grows.

!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

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

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

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

I can't join any midwest.social communities, I have to create a new account. Is this because my account is under sh.itjust.works and midwest.social isn't linked like Beehaw and lemmy.world? Not a question specifically for you, just anyone with fediverse knowledge.
- are you on desktop or an app?
  I know on desktop you should be able to log into sh.itjust.works, then click on the Communities tab and there will be a search box
  if you paste !cats@midwest.social into the search box and hit search it will attempt to federate that community onto sh.itjust.works
  it can take a minute to appear but the search result should eventually switch from no results to showing the 'cats' community and you can then view/subscribe right there from your home instance
  same applies to any remote community, you need to search for the !community_name@instance_name from your home instances search box

We need some posts on idiotsincars. Please drop in!

When I click your link it completely closes Jerboa.

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

We just need to understand the convention
Instead of r/<community name> we have !<community name>@<instance name>
I think it's doable
- 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.
I am using vlemmy! Small community but very helpful

I'll shill the ones I made!

Destiny for the game Destiny, hopefully to fill in for r/destinythegame

Depressive Suicidal Black Metal for depressive suicidal black metal, my favorite genre

Shoegaze for shoegaze, another favorite of mine

Metal Memes for dumb metal memes

Nice! Related, I made !rabm@sh.itjust.works

It is not really good, since I have just created it. But as far as I know, there is no such community anywhere in the lemmy verse, hence me creating it:

!gaybros@lemmy.world

I saw there’s also an instance !askgaybros@lemmy.cock.social that seems to be trying to make some gay community though it looks very empty so far too
- Yes, I saw that! I think they serve different purposes. One is for question related queries (askgaybros), the other is more general, just "gaybros".
  Also, naming a community "cock.social" is too "in your face" for my own liking. Pun unintended haha

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

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.
- Got it. Thanks!