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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
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Very confused.. I have a direct link to a Linux community and can't figure out how to open it, or join it, or whatever I'm supposed to do with it in Jerboa. Discovery seems severely limited.
Jerboa search only finds communities that at least 1 person on your instance subscribed to, to find new communities from other instances easily I like to use https://browse.feddit.de/
Then when you find a community, go to the web version of your instance (don't worry it's (mostly) mobile friendly) and type !name@instan.ce (don't forget the !) Then you can subscribe there. Close and reopen Jerboa and your new community will show up in the list. The Jerboa devs are working on fixing this.
There needs to be a place that brings all of these features together in one place. Otherwise the people who are used to being spoonfed functionality (which now makes up the majority of reddit users) will not switch over; or they’ll switch and bounce off.
The Jerboa devs are working on it.
This needs simplifying, but am glad to hear that. Actually excited to hear. Feels like experiencing the pioneer days of a new social media network. 🙂