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What are some great communities to follow that are not on lemmy.ml or beehaw (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

[email protected] is the long running cat-pic community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I am totally looking forward to seeing some cats that enjoy a good marathon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

no feed is complete without some cat pics. thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good question! You can copy the text [email protected], then click the magnifying glass at top right and search for the community.

It should then come up in your search results, where you can visit from your own instance, and click to subscribe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mastodon suffers from similar annoyances. I feel like this system could be improved, it's pretty confusing for beginners. I support frontends rewriting links, I suppose (though I suppose there is the tricky issue of deciding what links point to the fedi. Maybe "[email protected]" should not be a link....)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It doesn't even work on mobile for me. I save posts for later to join on my desktop. Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I agree, the copy->search user experience for exploring the fediverse is pretty terrible. For Lemmy at least, maybe any community ! links should automatically try to resolve on your instance? I also wouldn't mind an extra little popup on hover, letting you choose to follow the link through to the original instance or have it search/open on your home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

thanks, I got there in the end!

when I searched for that text/link I'm saw posts that referenced [email protected] (hyperlinks), and when I was first trying it was going to the front page and asking me to login or create an account - fail

but one of the posts that came up in the search had a different link ... hovering over it showed https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] when I clicked on that one I could see [email protected] ... I could also see that I was still logged in as me, and there was an option to subscribe

hopefully that helps others in this brave new world ... long live Lemmy and so long Reddit!