this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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] 9 points 1 year ago (15 children)

We all have to do our part to talk about the products and services we use here on Lemmy. Does anyone know of a good community similar to /r/buyitforlife on the fediverse?

[–] Quoicessa 13 points 1 year ago (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (13 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.

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