Hah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄
No need to compete! I'm self-hosting my own instance in any case, so I thought I might as well make communities for things I'm interested in. I've also subbed to every other gamedev community I've come across so far...
It would be really neat if there were a lemmy feature to easily co-promote related communities, maybe even give users an easy way to see them all in one feed.
It's all good, thank you for the reply. I hope you're right. But new registrations do not actually appear to be closed for lemmy.ml at the moment, it's just that newly registered accounts require admin approval.
If email isn't working, then you'll have to turn off email verification in your instance's settings before anyone is able to log in without encountering that spinner.
To get email to work, you'll need to provide SMTP credentials in lemmy.hjson on the server you're using to host lemmy. An example SMTP configuration is shown in the docs here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration.html
You may also have to restart lemmy after you update the configuration, in order for it to take effect. (I do this on my server via docker-compose restart.)
When I set up lemmy on my server with lemmy-ansible, the config file was initially set up with a valid-looking SMTP config. But when emails weren't working I looked more closely, and it turned out that there is something broken with the SMTP service that lemmy is integrated with by default. It seems that you will need to provide your own credentials.
I'm using an SMTP service provided by a web hosting service I pay for, but you can also use gmail in a pinch: https://kinsta.com/blog/gmail-smtp-server/
Hm, that's surprising. I didn't expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g. [!news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com](/c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com)? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.
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.)
How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?
If the communities haven't synced to your instance yet, then you can prompt the instance to sync them by copying and pasting them into your instance's search page. Unfortunately lemmy doesn't do this automatically when you visit the URL, at least not yet.
Once the communities are synced, then you should be able to just click the links to visit them and subscribe from there.
I could see value in having an option to the effect of "I'm the age of majority and I want to see adult content" in user profile options which is turned off by default, and if it's turned off then the UI would show a warning about the nature of the content and the user's current setting in place of posts or communities that have been marked as adult content.
Why can’t a messaging app just send messages? Why does it have to include a social network?!
Silicon Valley corporations don't know the meaning of a stable business model. Infinite growth or bust, only they always seem to find their way around to bust.
Is there any benefit to joining an Instance closer to your location (e.g. An Australian hosted instance vs one in Europe)
There is! Lemmy instances are generally going to be hosted from one geographic location, unlike a major corporate website like reddit that is likely to be hosted from multiple servers around the world. The closer the lemmy server is to you, the snappier and more responsive your experience will tend to be.
But there are other and larger factors, too. For one thing, if an instance is overloaded with more users than it can really handle, then that will more than outweigh the benefit of geographical proximity.
As things level out, though, and the increased traffic that lemmy instances are experiencing right now reaches a stable level, instance hosts should be able to adapt and overloading should become less of an issue. In the end I think you are likely to have the smoothest experience if you joined an instance whose server is located closer to you.
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
I think it is annoying that most posts, like this one, are about Lemmy itself. I hope this will change soon.
I can suggest subscribing to a broader range of communities. I think you can expect to find a lot of these kinds of lemmy-related questions and discussions on the most populated communities on the most populated instance, like here, where all the new users are landing.
Since you're registered on feddit.de, you can browse communities and subscribe to them pretty easily here:
Well... Hopefully in the near future the UX for linking to communities can be improved, since right now the way things work makes it a pretty crappy user experience for anyone on an instance that hasn't synced that community yet.