I’ve already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances.

For science topics, mander.xyz has a lot of good ones set up, and !solarpunk@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net has been great!

edit: for new users - you can type ! to begin autofilling a community, even for ones on other instances, like I did for the solarpunk community above. It may take a few seconds for the autofill results to show up if you have a slow connection like me.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    Gotta plug my instance :)

    PopHeads and fans of pop music rejoice, I have an entire instance just for you. Come and post all of your pop music theories, favorite tracks, costumes, memes, snarky comments, and all other related things. Hell, create a new community if you like!

    Will be creating more as interest demands, or create one of your own, we know there’s already a few fans of Camila Cabello there and I know I love CRJ :)

    Oh, and to ease the stress, my registration is currently open for any lurkers

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        That’s what I thought when I set it up, I could either go broad with a few things I like, but I think if we’re going to really see lemmy expand we need to see topical servers. People are welcome to register on my server if they like, but I view it more as a “import this to yours instance to enhance your communities”.

    • zalack@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Is there a guide for how to register on multiple Lemmy instances? I am registered here, but noticed that I can’t subscribe to communities on other instances? I assume I need to register there as well, but how do I get my subscriptions on both instances to funnel into the same place?

      Thanks! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        Nope you can subscribe to other lemmy instances. You just need to know their link. For example, if you want to follow my Taylor Swift community and become a full blown swiftie like me, you can do this: (Make sure All, All, and All are selected when searching)

        • kethali@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          While fine for me, I thnk this is going to be one of the bigger hurdles for newer users. It’s not the most obvious, really. I’m not sure what could help, maybe some bookmarklet exists to make it simpler to subscribe via the instance you’re using?

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Completely agree, it’s a major pain point. I’ve opened some issues on Github around it. Reddit had a manifesto that joining communities should the easiest thing to do, and we need to do the same here.

          • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Something very similar exists for Mastodon in the form of FediAct so it’s probably only a matter of time until someone makes a browser extension for Lemmy.

        • iod@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Small tip: you don’t have to search with an exact link there, simply searching for “Swift” would’ve found your instance.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
            5·
            2 years ago

            Only if your server already knows about the community. If you’re the first person on your server (more likely if your server or the one you are subscribing to are small) then you’ll need either the full URL or at least the !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech part.

    • Theroddd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Sounds fun! Looks fun! However I am having trouble subscribing. Nothing is found when I search. Now, I know you aren’t tech support but pointing me in the right direction and telling what I am doing wrong herr would be amazing.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Interesting. You can also try https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/c/popheads. On the website I know there’s a bug where it doesn’t show a loading spinner either, so it may take a few seconds after clicking search for it to show up even though it looks like it’s not doing anything.

        Lemmy.ml is also inundated with new members right now, they’re actually 404ing for me right now, so they may be having issues connecting.

        • Theroddd@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Thank you for the fast response. It’s really appreciated. When I follow your link I still cannot subscribe. I get “not ogged in” whe. Trying to subscribe through the communities tab. Or I get the enter thing into the search bar prompt.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Hmmm, I haven’t done it through the app before, let me get back to you on this. I’ve been having some troubles with the app too…

              • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Of course! This is new to me, we’re all just getting started. There are going to be growing pains all over the place, hell maybe I didn’t set something up right. It’s new, we’re having fun :)

              • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Oh don’t go to the link, paste it into the search bar from your logged-in instance. (The other one should also have worked, but again lemmy.ml is a bit slow and may be having issues).

                This is how it looked to me from the website, make sure “All, All, and All” are selected

    • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Ficsit approves this efficient method of gathering new recreational listening material to motivate greater productivity 🏅