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Welcome, new users! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could be wrong, but I believe when you search it searches all constant that has been "federated" to the server your searching on. in other words, any remote communities that are subscribed by users on this instance will be searched. something along those lines, anyways, haha.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your reply! See, that's what I thought, but I tried a few searches that I was sure would pull up a community--things like "fashion" or "volkswagen" or "Beatles" and I come up with no search results. I'd buy that those communities may not exist in a new(er) Canadian-focused server, but across the whole Fediverse of servers? I dunno. I still think there's things about this place that I don't get. Ah well, in time, I'll learn I'm sure. Thank you again for taking the time to reply.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just ran a quick test. I found the fashion community from lemmy.ml (by searching directly on their site), and subscribed to it. now when you search here for fashion it shows up. so you might be better off searching some of the bigger instances directly, then subscribing to them from here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh... so you need to search directly on other instances to find communities. Hmm... bit of a shot in the dark there, but I'll give it a try. Thank you for the guidance!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, basically. if no one from this instance is subscribed to a remote community then it won't show up in the search.

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

Hold up, so if anyone as a member of this instance has subscribed to any community outside of this instance, it becomes searchable from within this instance, while if the community is entirely unknown within this instance, you need to find it 'out there' somewhere and subscribe whereupon you're good (and it can then be found by any member of this instance)? That's my understanding based on this discussion, anyway. :)