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submitted 2 years ago by Weird_With_A_Beard to c/main

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If it doesn't appear in the search results, use "[email protected]" in the search bar. That will create a connection between new instances too.

[–] Weird_With_A_Beard 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Appreciate it! So I search on feddit.de, then find, say, https://lemmy.ml/c/bills.

I then log in to https://sh.itjust.works, and search for [email protected]?

I'm off to try...

Edit: (for those reading along) it works fine! I am not finding a few communities that are listed on feddit.de, but it might be that those are new (less than 2 hours). Later they were located fine.

[–] Klaymore 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you need to refresh the search again if the community was not known to your instance at first. You can also just copy-paste the URL into the search and it should work. Make sure search type is set to All and not Communities

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

There's a multi-reddit issue open in github. It's coming soon™

[–] MajickmanW 3 points 2 years ago

Hell yes, glad to hear it!

[–] ShadowAether 3 points 2 years ago

Ya custom feeds are nice

[–] Varyk 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I'm in the exact same boat and this helps.

[–] ShadowAether 5 points 2 years ago

The reason is that it takes to that instance directly not through the instance you are registered on, link instructions are explained here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/66683

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

Thanks! This was exactly what I was trying to figure out.

[–] Provenscroll 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In my jerboa app I'm able to search when I'm in the all tab and subscribe to communities from other instances, is there any problem with doing it this way?

[–] Weird_With_A_Beard 1 points 2 years ago

I'm jealous! I haven't been able to but, now with more knowledge, I'll give it another go

If it works for you, keep doing it!

It would be awesome to just search "pancakes" in jerboa, and see the pancake communities in all the instances. Or even if I know [email protected] exists, to go search it outright from jerboa.

We're on a mission to learn!

[–] Klaymore 2 points 2 years ago

You can search for the URL through your instance as long as your search type is set to All and not Communities. If your instance didn't know about the community at first then you have to search again or click next for it to actually show the community, then you can click on it and subscribe.

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