Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don’t understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I’m in Lemmy.world, I can click “instances” and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.

And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I’m supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?

And finally, is there a search per community possibility?

Sorry, I’m still confused about these.

  • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If you format the link like this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

    I changed the link according to my home instance: https://lemmy.click/c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

    Result: 404: couldnt_find_community

    Same for https://lemmy.click/c/atheism@lemmy.ml

    But https://lemmy.click/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml does work. I’m not subscribed/pending to any of these three.

    This is consistent with the internal search (Communities). I can find and visit lemmy@lemmy.ml, but not the other two hosted at the same instance.

    • CoachDomEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I see what you mean - I have similar results. So I can access through my instance, the gamedev & lemmy community (on the lemmy.ml instance) but not the atheism. If I try through your instance (lemmy.click) it doesn’t work for gamedev & atheism, but it still works with lemmy community.

      Maybe it’s just some kind of bug? This is all still pretty new, so it might that some connections are not made yet.

      • CoachDomEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It seems that lemmy.ml is under most pressure right now because all the people abandoning the reddit-ship. It might be because of that.

          • CoachDomEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Found the solution!

            So here is how it works: if there was no subscription made from anyone from your instance to this particular community, it might not show up straight up in your search bar. What you have to do is the following: Copy the remote link which looks like this: !likeadragon@lemmy.world Includes an exclamation mark, name of the community then @ followed by the instance name

            Then you go to search bar and make sure that you have “all” in every possible dropdown. I had Community in the type dropdown and look at the difference before and after changing it to all:

            I hope they fix this bug