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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] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But if I want to subscribe to an instance on beehaw or kbin I need to have an account for those correct?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nope, you only need one account. It works like email, it dosn't matter if you're on gmail, yahoo or fastmail, you can still send and receive emails from other providers. You can subscribe to communities on other instances and post comments or submit new posts regardless of which instance the community is on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nope, you only need one account

well, almost... your account can only see what its instance lets you, eg from where i'm posting from (lemmy.ml) i can see things on lemmygrad.ml but many instances, including the one you're on sh.itjust.works, have blocked them.

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

Thanks for the reply, I think I got it now. What confused me was the "it's like email" part. I understand I can send to/receive from yahoo, AOL etc. But I can't log into them with my Gmail. So I was thinking I would need a sing-in for beehaw and others.