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?
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.
mander.xyz has a ton of cool science instances!
I created a few shitposting communities that I really miss from reddit.
!rustjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - a place dedicated to making fun of rust programming language (actually mainly its competitors)
!vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny flags
!yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Europe and the EU in a humorous fashion
!truestl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Elder Scrolls shitposting
!femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - femboy memes
!data_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny graphs
!okbuddybaka@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - 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 :)
self-promoting /c/autism!
I created https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai for general safe for work AI image generation, all are welcome!
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?
Here’s a howto https://lemmy.ml/comment/459391
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.
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.
I made https://lemmy.world/c/guitars and you’ll NEVER guess what we talk about.
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.
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 newsHah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄
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.
How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?
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.
!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.
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.
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.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.)
People knock lemmygrad.ml but I think it’s the best site for people who were nauseated by r/worldnews 🤷
I just made an Angry Upvote community 😊.
!thescarydoor 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
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
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/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
