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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah I don't understand how to search for subreddits. I also don't know how this is structured... And there's no clear way to explore and figure it out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Open the search and you can find a community using the search field. To search for communities specifically it’s: !community-name@instance-name. Then it will show that community as a search result, and from your instance you can subscribe to it. No need to go make a new user on every instance you want to sub to one of their communities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No problem! Happy to make using lemmy easier.

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

OK, I found a community I want to join. I copied its address. Now what???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Try searching for it using the search field on your instance. If it's not federated with your instance yet, you have to search with the address, and wait a bit.

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

I figured out how to subscribe to communities, but not sure how this works. Like I wonder if when a community is created if it propagates to the federation, or if you can have multiple "XYZ" communities.

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

There are multiple communities with the same name. See /c/[email protected] and /c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Correct, and unfortunately it will fragment those users into silos I believe. I saw in one of the stickies, for new users to search for communities before creating duplicates.