Not sure if this is the best place to post, but I’m trying to figure Lemmy out. Suppose I want to subscribe to !news@beehaw.org using this account… how do I do that?
When I go to the “communities” tab and search for “news”… doesn’t show up there. I can search for “technology” and find results for !technology@beehaw.org. I can go to a URL on this domain for that community; but plopping the word “news” instead of “technology” in that URL gives me a 404.
Do the admins of this instance have to whitelist specific other communities before people here can subscribe to them? Have they done that with “technology” but not “news”? (I understand if that’s the case. Probably want to keep programmers.dev on topic. Just trying to figure out how lemmy works)
Try putting the full source url on the search bar on your instance
It should show up. Sometimes I’ll have to search it multiple times, but doing that should index it. Then subscribing should make it available for others on the instance.
If however your instances aren’t federated with each other, this likely won’t work.
I had trouble with the federation at the start so this instance is Open Federation so we currently federate with anything. Don’t make me regret that decision lol.
What’s also the etiquette if you create a community that already exists on another instance? For instance, I would be very interested in a Ruby community. But that already exists on lemmy.ml. Would it be a bad idea to create a new one rather than subscribing and participating in that other one?
I think that’s really probably up to the community, but I like that this instance is aimed at programmers, where Lemmy.ml is kind of a generic one. I think it should probably be made here, even if the other one is more popular. it’s probably good to stay distributed anyway.
Yeah, I agree. This is a killer domain also! Can’t believe it was available.
haha no idea how it was available. pretty penny though. I will go ahead and make a Ruby community as well.
Awesome, thanks! :)
Probably want to keep programmers.dev on topic
Wouldn’t this just mean that you would have to have an account for multiple different servers? Isn’t that besides the point of federation?
I’m definitely a reddit refugee, but have enjoyed Mastodon, so I like the concept of the fediverse. I’d like to avoid my early Mastodon mistakes of trying to join multiple servers so that I could connect with the different communities I used Twitter to keep track of.
I’m not sure what people want to do, but it makes sense to keep the Local communities on topic, and then people can subscribe to whatever they want from the fediverse. I’m really hesitant around porn though, as you can probably understand. If I can get other admins to assist me and we can build something out to stop CSAM then I’d be willing to allow it.
That makes total sense to me, but I’m finding that I can’t e.g. subscribe to e.g. news/politics from the lemmy.ml server, or gardening on the midwest.social server. Not sure what’s required to enable that, or if I’m just doing something wrong?
You need to copy the url of the community that you want to subscribe to, then paste it into the search. If you wait a few seconds, it should show up and then you can subscribe. If that’s not working then I’m going to have to ask in the Lemmy matrix chat because I’m just as new to this as all of you lol
It seems to sometimes fail and sometimes work, like there’s a bit more lag in the search when it reaches out to another server. I think I’ve managed to get the hang of it but it was a bit tricky at first.
Now I just have to find some sort of RES-like way to maximize screen real estate usage and I’ll be set! Thanks for setting this community up!
I can modify the CSS. If you think there’s something we should change about it, make a post in meta and we can try it out!
Wouldn’t this just mean that you would have to have an account for multiple different servers?
I don’t think so, you should be able to subscribe to anything from https://programming.dev/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
There are quite a few communities on other servers that don’t show up on the listing. I’m not sure if it’s just an issue where things aren’t syncing well because of server load? I remember similar issues with mastodon during some of the exodus spikes from the birdsite.
You have to copy and paste the community url you want for it to find it. Idk why it works that way. Probably to reduce load.
It’s not working for me unless I switch the dropdown from Communities to All. Maybe a bug?
Sorry for the late response. I think that’s how it has to work, but it’s super weird. We need to add some proper directions in how to subscribe to other communities lol
I think things are still a little buggy in this area.
Earlier today I tried to access https://programming.dev/c/kgatlw@lemmy.ml but it was a 404, I searched for “kgatlw” but no results, searched again for !kgatlw@lemmy.ml and it worked, I could subscribe and no longer get the 404.
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I’m wondering about creating new communities on other instances. Can I use my account here to create a community on another instance? Or do I need to juggle a bunch of Lemmy accounts? Can I at least do moderation across instances?
The way I understand it is you cannot create a community on another instance, but you can definitely moderate across instances (according to what I’ve read today). You just need a person native to that instance to make the community for you and add you as a mod
@snowe , is there a particular reason for comments from rust@lemmy.ml being unlisted from programming.dev, e.g:
Does order of operations in community subscription and server creation play into this?
Or is this all ephemeral because servers for lemmy.ml being overloaded with reddit users?
Yeah you have to subscribe and then comments made after the subscription should show up. I’m not sure if you’re seeing other issues? I’m brand new to all this as well 😬
