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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there a way I can follow that without having to create a new account? Still trying to figure everything out

[–] Quoicessa 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Search for a community and write [email protected] as you're search term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How are those search terms meant to work? I've seen so many people recommend searching for communities by adding an exclamation point in front, but that has never produced any results when I search using Jerboa. Is that actually supposed to work, or is the exclamation point a placeholder that I have to know to exclude or replace with something else?

[–] MrScottyTay 2 points 1 year ago

I've had the same experience, I've found better luck subscribing to outside communities through the websites on desktop but it's still not 100% for me. Jerboa really needs to find a way to handle community links properly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It seems to fail initially, but if you wait a few seconds and try again, it should show up. At least that's how it is on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Default search is for Communities but I found I could only find some I looked for if I changed it to "All" when searching. It would say nothing found otherwise. They were an existing (but new) community on another Lemmy instance.

[–] spegin 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just to note, this only works if someone on your instance has already made the instance "know" about the community by explicitly searching for it in the search menu - otherwise you'll run into a 404: couldnt_find_community error.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone needs to make an extension that seamlessly manages federations and servers like that, since it is going to be the worst part of switching

[–] ShutYourPieHole 1 points 1 year ago

Hate to repost the same thing, but this might help in that regard: https://sh.itjust.works/post/70143

It's not really an extension, rather its a GreaseMonkey script, but it does simplify the process quite a bit by redirecting a community to your local instance. I've found it has simplified my workstream. I'm sure there will be extensions and other utilities to come in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting! Thank you!

[–] ShutYourPieHole 4 points 1 year ago

I also found this GreaseMonkey script that simplifies the entire process by allowing you to redirect any community to your local instance: https://sh.itjust.works/post/70143

This really simplified my workstream for adding new communities. There is also a script to reformat the site to look more like old Reddit if you are really wanting to feel at home. Some great work being done in that community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can link it to be accessible for all instances Buyitforlife

[–] Ergonomic_Keyboard 2 points 1 year ago

So far, I just search the sub name in the instance I'm registered to and it always appears in the search results at the top.

Click that and I'm in!