mander.xyz has a ton of cool science instances!
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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Posted this elsewhere, but as people flood in maybe some community promotion isn't a bad thing...
Iβve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, thereβs not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants to check them out:
FFXIV β https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs β https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports β https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam β https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek β https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade β https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
It doesn't let me follow them, wants me to log in again when i click the link
Don't click the links, copy them into the search bar on your instance. You may need to search for it twice for it to show up. (definitely not too intuitive, I hope it'll improve) >
Can I follow these from kbin?
I think so - if you search for those links on your kbin instance, I believe they should show up as magazines and you can subscribe to them the same way.
You can! To subscribe to something on another instance just go to the general search and type <community name>@<hostname>
For example here's a search for ffxiv@possumpat.io
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!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz looks interesting.
!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one
map enthusiasts looks very cool.
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!cats@midwest.social is the long running cat-pic community.
Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?
You might be able to see it from your home instance by clicking this link: !cats@midwest.social
Edit: nope that's not working...
Good question! You can copy the text !cats@midwest.social, 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.
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 "!cats@midwest.social" should not be a link....)
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.
Which is actually funny when you think about it because that would be integral to utilizing the benefits of the Fediverse.
It will get figured out in time.
It doesn't even work on mobile for me. I save posts for later to join on my desktop. Lol
Most definitely, although with many of these projects its probably not a case of not wanting to make it easier, but simply that it hasnt been implemented yet. I generally tend to link so that people can check out the community being referred to -
Easier way for Kbin seems to be dropping the "!" and putting it after Kbin.social/m/
So /m/cats@midwest.social should take you there.
thanks, I got there in the end!
when I searched for that text/link I'm saw posts that referenced !cats@midwest.social (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/cats@midwest.social when I clicked on that one I could see cats@midwest.social ... 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!
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slrpnk.net has some fantastic budding communities about living life more ecologically. Also some nice tech stuff -- do give it a look!
!thescarydoor@kbin.social is a Futurama subreddit that I am shamelessly self-promoting. I hope that's okay.
Edit: I don't know how to link it properly, I guess.
Subscribed! For people on the lemmy side, just searching for https://kbin.social/m/thescarydoor should have it come up.
Thank you! I'm pretty new to all of this and I was just following what everyone else was doing haha
To make a system agnostic link, you do it [like this](/c/thescarydoor@kbin.social) for Lemmy. Not sure if kbin has javascript URL rewriting, not tried it. Those URLs also don't work in Jerboa atm. Gonna take a bit before all the papercuts get solved.
funnily this does not create a hyperlink (atleast on vivaldi) and if I enter that in ALL search the only result is your comment :D. Guess we are all still learning this.
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Good news everyone!
While we're on the topic of community promotion, might as well plug my shadowrun community.
My home instance seems to have a lot of techy people, so we also got UNIX systems, Networking and AI Images communities too.
might as well plug my shadowrun community.
Oh, nice! Joined :)
Something I haven't been able to wrap my head around, do I need a username on each instance for federated instances? If not, how does one participate in communities in other instances? I'm with lemmy.ml, but if I want to interact with a post on beehaw, how do I do that?
You only need one username for each group of federated servers/instances. Click Communities at the top, then click All under List of communities. that should list all communities known to lemmy.ml. If a community is not known, you would need to search for it (eg. Technology@beehaw.org).
I think it works like this: each account belongs to an instance which is your home instance. You can go to other instances to interact with their communities, but your profile (where your history is) is on your home instance. The only difference Iβve notice is that, posting on your home instance then your post is just username, but on away instances itβs username@homeinstance. Otherwise it seems to work the exact same as interacting with communities on your home instance. But Iβve only just signed up so I am making guessing!
The short answer is no, you dont.
Think of this like email, you sign up to a mail provider (gmail, yahoo, fastmail, etc) or even if you're feeling up to it run you own email server with you own domain. You can then use that account to send emails to anyone regardless of which provider they picked and anyone can send you email too.
Lemmy (and ActivityPub, the underlying protocol) works the same. ActivityPub under the hood even uses the same concept of an inbox and outbox. You pick your provider and you can comment, post, etc. to anywhere regardless of which instance the other users or community is on.
If you see a post on another instance (e.g. Beehaw) you can just comment in the webui or app and it'll just work.
But if I want to subscribe to an instance on beehaw or kbin I need to have an account for those correct?
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There are a lot of communities to discover on kbin.social's magazines , I have also made my own community for Buddhism, although I'm not sure how many people here are really interested in that.
Self promoting https://midwest.social/c/synths (like /r/synthesizers) and the hubby's community https://midwest.social/c/guitars (like /r/guitar) for anyone interested in those.
Here's some of the communities on lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. They're pretty small and quiet at the moment, but maybe they'll grow a little over time:
!dev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For software development
!gamedev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For game development
!compile@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For compiler development
!games@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For video games
!rns@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Deep Rock Galactic
!fortnight@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Fortnight
!twitch@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For twitch.tv
!tech@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For general tech stuff
!news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For world news
Lol, love that the DRG group isn't called DRG but Rock 'n Stone. Very Karl of you.
How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?
Go to your instance, click ok search and paste each one in there, then you can just access them like regular subreddits. If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.
If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.
That's actually not true! If you format the links like this: /c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com, like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they're viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)
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