ust a quick heads-up that I federated our server with Lemmy.ml, which is the “big” Lemmy server. What that means is that people who have accounts on the main Lemmy instance, Lemmy.ml, can find and join our community, so it’s possible we may see some newbies come in. It also means that you can use your account here to join communities on Lemmy.ml.
I’m being very careful with this at first because I don’t want to deal with a lot of spam. I reserve the right to turn it off if spam becomes a problem. But hopefully it won’t, and I’ll be able to deal with whatever comes along easily enough. Use that downvote and report button!
At first this is going to be clunky, because our server is still working on federating with theirs. So, if you were to look at a conversation over at Lemmy.ml right now, it would look like a ghost town. But that’s just because our server is in the early phases of federating with them. As time goes on, it will become seamless.
Also, there’s no good way for us to search for communities on Lemmy.ml right now, because we are in the early stages of federation and no one has joined those communities yet. The only way to do so right now is to go to https://lemmy.ml, click Communities at the top, and search or browse. You can then come back here to your account, click the magnifying glass symbol on the top, type into search:
!communityname@lemmy.ml and you’ll be able to join it. Again, at first it may seem like there are not a lot of posts, but this is because we are still in this early federation period.
This is also a good moment to plug !ws_server_discussion@sub.wetshaving.social, which is what it sounds like, a place to discuss anything involving the server and its administration. Please feel free to join if that interests you.
Thanks again for being part of this experiment!
Yay, fediverse, here we come!
Very cool. I tried adding some general communities from lemmy.ml but it seems like there is some sort of approval process since some of the subscriptions are still pending. Looking forward to seeing how this grows.
Thanks for all the work and please let me know if I can help in any way. I have a background in software though not in this space, but I can help figure stuff out if needed.
If you click “Communities” at the top of the page, and then click “All”, do you see them listed there? If not, try joining !lemmy!lemmy@lemmy.ml and let me know if that doesn’t work. I can look into it.
Appreciate the offer of help. I’m not quite sure what I’ll need help with yet, but if you could join !ws_server_discussion@sub.wetshaving.social, I’d appreciate it. When I start seeing things I need help with, I’ll be posting about it there.
They’re no longer listed as pending.
Awesome! Happy it’s working. As I understand it, as people post we’ll now be able to see it, but I’m not sure to what extend we’ll be able to see all comments? That part isn’t clear to me, hopefully it will become clearer over time.
