new to fediverse, new to Lemmy, new to sh.itjust.works
Anyone want to critique my approach? I'm trying to find and join federated communities to engage with through jerboa app...
For others reading along, I learned a good way to find communities is:
1)browse to http://browse.feddit.de and search for communities by title (“NFL”, “broncos”, “NFCN_meme_war”). This is to make sure you’re seeing if your desired community exists somewhere in the fediverse.
3)search by the title again (not the url that feddit.de let’s you copy… Don’t know why)
4)click the link to the community, it opens in your browser
5)click the sidebar link, click subscribe
6)now you can log into your app (for me it’s jerboa for Lemmy) and see posts from those communities in your subscribed feed!
This seems arduous, and it is, but it’s just because I’ve been reading that search for communities in jerboa isn’t functional yet, because we’re all so new! It’ll likely get better soon
Edit: (for those reading along) it works fine! I am not finding a few communities that are listed on feddit.de, but it might be that those are new (less than 2 hours). Later they were located fine.
you need to refresh the search again if the community was not known to your instance at first. You can also just copy-paste the URL into the search and it should work. Make sure search type is set to All and not Communities
The reason is that it takes to that instance directly not through the instance you are registered on, link instructions are explained here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/66683
In my jerboa app I'm able to search when I'm in the all tab and subscribe to communities from other instances, is there any problem with doing it this way?
I'm jealous! I haven't been able to but, now with more knowledge, I'll give it another go
If it works for you, keep doing it!
It would be awesome to just search "pancakes" in jerboa, and see the pancake communities in all the instances. Or even if I know pancakes@lemmy.world exists, to go search it outright from jerboa.
You can search for the URL through your instance as long as your search type is set to All and not Communities. If your instance didn't know about the community at first then you have to search again or click next for it to actually show the community, then you can click on it and subscribe.