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.

  • 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.