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Anyone want to critique my approach? I'm trying to find and join federated communities to engage with through jerboa app...

For others reading along, I learned a good way to find communities is:

1)browse to http://browse.feddit.de and search for communities by title (“NFL”, “broncos”, “NFCN_meme_war”). This is to make sure you’re seeing if your desired community exists somewhere in the fediverse.

2)log into your account at a place like http://www.beehaw.org (for me it is http://sh.itjust.works)

3)search by the title again (not the url that feddit.de let’s you copy… Don’t know why)

4)click the link to the community, it opens in your browser

5)click the sidebar link, click subscribe

6)now you can log into your app (for me it’s jerboa for Lemmy) and see posts from those communities in your subscribed feed!

This seems arduous, and it is, but it’s just because I’ve been reading that search for communities in jerboa isn’t functional yet, because we’re all so new! It’ll likely get better soon

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[–] MajickmanW 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One thing I'm wondering/would like to see, is a way to aggregate similar communities into a single feed.

To continue with the NFL example, there are a few different communities with than name across a few different Lemmy instances.

It would be nice if there was a way to link them within your account.

[–] Barbarian 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MajickmanW 3 points 1 year ago

Hell yes, glad to hear it!

[–] ShadowAether 3 points 1 year ago

Ya custom feeds are nice