What are some great communities to follow that are not on lemmy.ml or beehaw
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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Self promoting a Futurama community https://lemmy.world/c/futurama
(Hypnotoad compels you to join)
[email protected] 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/[email protected]) 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.
Does this work: [email protected]
Try 2: [email protected]
Not really, from lemmy.ml it ends up being a hyperlink over to the other website instead of a local community reference.
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.
Good news everyone!
I made https://lemmy.world/c/guitars and you'll NEVER guess what we talk about.
Hey Art- how's that gig at kruger industral smoothing? Lol. Anyway I just got here from reddit and the first thing I was looking for was the equivalent of /r/guitars. Is your server federated with lemmy.ml? I can't seem to subscribe...
Edit - i figured it out! Someone has to search for your link in their instances search at least once. I guess that was me! Kinda fun being on the first wave of reddit refugees.
lol i had the same issue, I'm getting all this federation stuff figured out too :)
edit: i was so happy i got Art Vandelay as a username! George is my spirit animal
Great idea, r/guitar never reached it's true potential with a lack of clear direction target, I hope that one will work better
/r/guitar gave a great example of everything not to do in an online guitar enthusiast forum, at least from a mod perspective. You won't find that bullshit at /c/guitars as long as i have anything to do with it, we just vibe and talk shop.
self-promoting /c/autism!
https://lemmy.world/c/autism
I'll join!
mander.xyz has a ton of cool science instances!
I just made an Angry Upvote community 😊.
https://sh.itjust.works/c/angryupvote
👿⬆
I have been waiting for this.
I just started https://sh.itjust.works/c/vtubers. I'm part of a small community of VTubers, and hoping to meet more people and make friends through Lemmy as well.
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:
[email protected] - For software development
[email protected] - For game development
[email protected] - For compiler development
[email protected] - For video games
[email protected] - For Deep Rock Galactic
[email protected] - For Fortnight
[email protected] - For twitch.tv
[email protected] - For general tech stuff
[email protected] - For world news
thanks for making these relative links, so they can work across instances, but... they don't actually work on a given instance until that community is first accessed there through search.
eg, your dev community worked for me (here on lemmy.ml) because someone else here already accessed it, but your news one was 404 until after I searched for https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/c/news on lemmy.ml to make it learn about it.
despite the amazing work over the last years there is still lots more to be improved :)
(i just accepted an invitation to become an admin here to help the two main devs be able to spend more time developing and less time moderating...)
for now, if you want to promote your instances communities to users on other big instances like lemmy.ml, i recommend searching for each community URL on various instances (login is not required for this) to make it easier for newbies there to click your relative links and subscribe.
Thank you for this comment. That explains what I've seen when trying to do relative links to help people out.
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.
Oh absolutely, I've got so many duplicates in my sub list and kinda love that it doesn't matter!
Seen some talk around of a potential feature where users can group related communities together for viewing purposes, but I expect it'll be a while away if it ever happens. In the meantime there's nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume), but that would rely on every mod of a similar place being as un-power-mad as yourself and reciproacting 😅
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.
That's true. Hoping things even out a bit after the initial rush to make new everything.
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?
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 get no results? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, sorry
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.
[email protected]? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I'm trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.
I'm really not sure, but it sounds like these could be issues related to feddit.uk? I suggest asking about this on a community there, or messaging an admin of that instance.
Running into this too, on desktop. It's pretty confusing.
It can take a very long time sometimes for the community to show up. It is still searching in the background even though it says "No results".
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.
That's actually not true! If you format the links like this:
/c/[email protected], 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.)That is awesome. Thank you for explaining the formatting!
I started [email protected] last week; that might interest you and others as well. :)
I've also joined your gamedev community! <3
You got yourself a new sub. Thank you for sharing!
Finally a deep rock galactic community?! Let's gooo, rock and stone!
I created https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai for general safe for work AI image generation, all are welcome!
Subscribed. I love that cute mascot.
slrpnk.net has some fantastic budding communities about living life more ecologically. Also some nice tech stuff -- do give it a look!
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?
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 I’ve notice is that, posting on your home instance then your post is just username, but on away instances it’s username@homeinstance. Otherwise it seems to work the exact same as interacting with communities on your home instance. But I’ve 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?
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.
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.
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.
I'm wondering, does ActivityPub have a way to delete content such that the deletion is propagated to other instances?
Yeah it does, when you delete some content it creates a "delete" activity which is sent out to all the servers that content was shared with. Those instances should remove the content on their side too, of course there is no way to ensure the content that has been shared is deleted, but activitypub does have a mechanism to delete content that has been federated.
Here's a howto https://lemmy.ml/comment/459391
That's helpful, thank you!
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. [email protected]).
![email protected] looks interesting.
![email protected] might become a pleasant UK based one
map enthusiasts looks very cool.
Thanks, we'll give it a go
Can confirm both of these are great 👍
I'm focusing my instance on some niche topics that I find interesting, here's what we've got so far.
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
Long Furbies → https://possumpat.io/c/longfurbies
Possums! → https://possumpat.io/c/possums
Thank you for your service!
Thanks for the Star Trek one!
No fucking way there's a xenoblade community
Nothing much in there yet, and I need to set a banner, but it exists!
It's amazing it already exist. Because "What we wish for is... A world with no gods"
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.
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.
[email protected] is the long running cat-pic community.
I am totally looking forward to seeing some cats that enjoy a good marathon.
Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?
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.
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....)
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 -
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!
Easier way for Kbin seems to be dropping the "!" and putting it after Kbin.social/m/
So /m/[email protected] should take you there.
You might be able to see it from your home instance by clicking this link: [email protected]
Edit: nope that's not working...
no feed is complete without some cat pics. thanks for sharing.
Just chipping in to promote my own lemmy instance: I created [email protected] and communities for the other 30 MLB teams to replace the subreddits we left behind.
I just subbed to the main baseball sub and the Twins so thanks!
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.
Oh, nice! Joined :)
Posted this elsewhere, but as people flood in maybe some community promotion isn't a bad thing...
I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants to check them out:
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
Can I follow these from kbin?
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 [email protected]
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.
Need to get a lemmy static going for the new tier!
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) >
Someone said you can format links so that login is not required to subscribe. I still don’t totally understand how all this works. The example they gave was /c/[email protected]
I created a few shitposting communities that I really miss from reddit.
[email protected] - a place dedicated to making fun of rust programming language (actually mainly its competitors)
[email protected] - funny flags
[email protected] - Europe and the EU in a humorous fashion
[email protected] - Elder Scrolls shitposting
[email protected] - femboy memes
[email protected] - funny graphs
[email protected] - stupid anime memes
There isn't anything going on there at the moment, but I hope in time they can prosper and produce some cool content :)
I've subbed to your trustl community!
may the gods watch over your battles, friend!
Do you also know if a community like r/hopeposting exists?
I do actually, there is [email protected]
I love you guys
Thank you for your service 🫡🇪🇺
For some reason, I keep getting 404 errors on these trying to approach them from my instance :/. Hopefully just a temporary bug and not that my instance is defederated from it or something.
It's probably just that nobody has searched for these communities from your instance yet.
You need to look up, for example, ![email protected] in the search box on your instance and it should sync up in a few seconds.
![email protected] works and is already synced from what I can see :>
I haven't found a good pro wrestling community, so I figured I'd try and start something. No idea what I'm doing but we'll get there. Link for anyone interested: https://midwest.social/c/wrestling
we're just getting started so you've either been waiting your whole life for this instance, or you're glad it's on someone else's rack.
PopHeads is for, well pop music-heads. and i've no clue how to link it so it works for everyone. that's a regular web link, apparently ![email protected] will work better for some.
the instance also just tipped up a meme community and plans to build out artist communities as well. the first is for taylor swift, so yeah, our mod buttons say 'hater' on them.
Join us on feddit.de to chat about boardgames (in english)
boargames on feddit.de
https://feddit.de/c/boardgames
[email protected] The best German memes!
[email protected]
People knock lemmygrad.ml but I think it's the best site for people who were nauseated by r/worldnews 🤷
[email protected] 🌎🌎🌎🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴
I got a bunch made and I'm not super sure on the best way to share em, but slightly shameless plug on at least three.
VoidBunnies for pictures of jet black bunnies, this page also being one going under lockdown.
GoldenAgeMinecraft for those that wanna relive or share some of the old Minecraft Nostalgia
And assuming it shows up right, TuckedInKitties, for pictures of kitties all tucked in and all.
I got way more and wouldn't mind finding some mods to help out in the coming days, but so far that's just highlighting three.
I'm going to shamelessly plug my community I started lemmy.ml/c/indiecountry it's a space to show off some of your favorite country music and maybe convince people not all country music is what you hear on the radio. So far it's just me but everyone is invited
I created ![email protected] to mimic r/stunfisk (a competitive pokemon community) on reddit. Id love to see a similar community prosper on lemmy