When you set up a lemmy instance, it has no idea other instances exist. It’s like throwing you into a web browser with no search engine. You don’t immediately see every single website, you have someone tell you about a cool website you found, and then you type it into the address bar, and save it.
It’s kind of the same thing with Lemmy instances and communities. Once a user types this syntax into the search prompt:
It will try and contact instance.com for that community. If it exists, the user can subscribe and the instances will now receive and send new posts to each other.
You can use this: lemmyverse.net/communitiesto find communities, when you go to a community it will have a link in the sidebar like: !community you may have to paste that link into your instance search bar for it to show up. (I think this is only if nobody from your instance has searched for it yet.) Its kinda a pain, but I think this will be a lot easier later down the road.
It retrieves the last 10 posts and adds the community reference to your local database. It is the same as putting “!community” in the search box and clicking search. The retrieval happens whether you look at the results or not.
lemmy-ui just landed a feature that looks for !community in the text and turns them into correct links automatically!! I think its available if your instance is using 0.18.1+ which beehaw is.
I am just here… (feddit.de)
The Verge - The fediverse, explained (www.theverge.com)
All hail lemmyverse.net (feddit.it)
After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/
I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
UPDATED: lemmony: A (better) better "All" browsing experience for small and large Lemmy instances (github.com)
v.0.0.6...
PSA r/Android is now on the Fediverse [official] (beehaw.org)
I changed the url of the post to be the beehaw link to community for easy sign up....
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Data is Beautiful - Visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps (lemmy.world)