Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don’t understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I’m in Lemmy.world, I can click “instances” and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.

And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I’m supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?

And finally, is there a search per community possibility?

Sorry, I’m still confused about these.

    • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks, that’s very kind!

      Someone shared this link: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/4331/The-growing-list-of-subreddits-going-to-be-dark-but

      If I understand this correctly, that’s a list of communities I should be able to subscribe to. I can visit https://lemmy.ml/c/atheism and https://lemmy.ml/c/gamedev, but they open as a new (?) lemmy to which I am not logged in. When I try to find them via ‘Communities’, I get “No results”, so I cannot subscribe.

      So it feels like some parts of the network are inaccessible (or even invisible, the internal serach does not show these two examples) and I don’t know why.

      • Ategon@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        These should work as links to both

        Gamedev

        Athiesm

        (I essentially just typed /c/gamedev@lemmy.ml for the gamedev one as the link without the first part and then it auto goes based on your current instance) To write a link to get to it you can also do https://lemmy.click/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

        If you get a 404 error you just need to search for the community first and then you can get to it (type !gamedev@lemmy.ml into the search bar when searching for communities. Youll get no results but then you can navigate to it)

        Some communities you cant navigate to or search for until it starts connecting with your instance a bunch. The initial search essentially forces it to start doing that but still doesnt make it show up in that search

        • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
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          1 year ago

          If you get a 404 error you just need to search for the community first and then you can get to it (type !gamedev@lemmy.ml into the search bar when searching for communities. Youll get no results but then you can navigate to it)

          Some communities you cant navigate to or search for until it starts connecting with your instance a bunch. The initial search essentially forces it to start doing that but still doesnt make it show up in that search

          Awesome, thank you! That seemed to work. Or, maybe. My subscribe is pending, and when visiting the communities I see nothing at all, although I know they have posts and stuff. I guess I’ll wait for a while.

      • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Right! I know exactly what it is!

        So here is what happens when you open " https://lemmy.ml/c/gamedev " - it opens the gamedev community that is hosted on the lemmy.ml instance but also it’s opening it as if you are accessing it from lemmy.ml instance.

        If you format the link like this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

        you will be taken to this community, from this instance but you will be accessing it through your instance. There is a better way, supposedly, which will mean you can access lemmy through your instance and search for !gamedev@lemmy.ml and it should show you this community and you will be able to access through your instance, but it doesn’t work for me like it doesn’t work for you. I reckon it’s some kind of bug.

        After you successfully subscribed to this community, its easy accessing it from now on, as it will show in the right hand side (subscribed tab)

        Hope it helps (please correct me anybody if I’m wrong)

        • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
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          1 year ago

          If you format the link like this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

          I changed the link according to my home instance: https://lemmy.click/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

          Result: 404: couldnt_find_community

          Same for https://lemmy.click/c/atheism@lemmy.ml

          But https://lemmy.click/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml does work. I’m not subscribed/pending to any of these three.

          This is consistent with the internal search (Communities). I can find and visit lemmy@lemmy.ml, but not the other two hosted at the same instance.

          • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I see what you mean - I have similar results. So I can access through my instance, the gamedev & lemmy community (on the lemmy.ml instance) but not the atheism. If I try through your instance (lemmy.click) it doesn’t work for gamedev & atheism, but it still works with lemmy community.

            Maybe it’s just some kind of bug? This is all still pretty new, so it might that some connections are not made yet.

                • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  Found the solution!

                  So here is how it works: if there was no subscription made from anyone from your instance to this particular community, it might not show up straight up in your search bar. What you have to do is the following: Copy the remote link which looks like this: !likeadragon@lemmy.world Includes an exclamation mark, name of the community then @ followed by the instance name

                  Then you go to search bar and make sure that you have “all” in every possible dropdown. I had Community in the type dropdown and look at the difference before and after changing it to all:

                  I hope they fix this bug