• Doofus Magoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    3 years ago

    OT: In Jerboa (lemmy app), why does clicking those community links open in a browser?

    My understanding is that if I want to engage with a community on another instance, I need to “go to” that community from my own instance… right?

    But when Jerboa opens the community in a browser, I can’t subscribe or anything since at that point I’m “on” the other instance, which of course has no idea who I am.

    • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
      26·
      3 years ago

      For Jerboa, if it’s not on one of the instances it is set to open, it’ll default to your browser.

      They’re working on expanding it past their default list, but to enable those long press on Jerboa > App Info > Open by default > toggle the enable button and turn on all the links.

      Those instances will now open in Jerboa.

    • lackthoughtOPEnglish
      9·
      3 years ago

      same thing happens to me in a web browser and in the ios app (mlem)

      probably just one of those early-tech things the devs need to work through and find a better implementation

      it’s a bit cumbersome, but you have to copy the text of the community and search for it from your own instance’s search box

    • Rentlar@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 years ago

      Don’t worry it’s not a competition! In fact a non-beehaw user would be helpful in suggesting communities that beehaw users might not aware of.

  • Percy@lemmy.oneEnglish
    12·
    3 years ago

    I created lotrmemes@midwest.social for those of you that like lotr memes

  • Username@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    3 years ago

    !sailing!sailing@lemmy.world

    My husband created this for sailing enthusiasts and it’d be awesome to see it get more active. You don’t have to be an experienced sailor. Just enthusiasm for the hobby/sport!

  • David@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    3 years ago

    It would be nice to see a new home for Tabletop Game Design; much enjoyed the discussions around both role playing and board/card games alike.

  • Limeade@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    3 years ago

    I’m really hoping https://kbin.social/m/folklore takes off, but at the moment that server has disabled federation because they’re having trouble scaling up to handle all the new traffic. The creator translates a lot of German folklore into English and seems very passionate about folklore and mythology.

    Today I also learned about !germany@feddit.de for English language discussion about Germany.

    • sigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 years ago

      If kbin is able to scale up, will we be able to interact with kbin through lemmy, like we do with other lemmy communities?

      • Limeade@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        3 years ago

        When I first got here, kbin’s main server, kbin.social, was interacting with Lemmy just fine. They turned on cloudflare to protect from DDoS attacks and it broke their federation is my understanding. Fedia.io is a different kbin server that should be federating like normal. Try checking out !random@fedia.io.

  • cities@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 years ago

    I still don’t quite understand how to subscribe to other communities on this thing.

    • vipaal @feddit.deEnglish
      21·
      3 years ago

      I did the following on Jerboa

      • save this post (we’ll be revisiting this a few times)
      • go to the search function that is indicated by the bulleted list icon
      • enter the community name (without the @… part)
      • there’ll be a few results
      • tap on them, see the posts if you want, and tap the subscribe button and see that it shows joined
      • go to saved posts, repeat until subscribed to every community you want

      Having said that, there’s probably a simpler way to do this. Still early in the learning process.

      • mustyOrange@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        3 years ago

        Overall, this is the biggest issue with jerboa. Not being able to get to other communities on other instances makes discovery next to impossible

        • aspseka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          3 years ago

          Just use the upper left menu to switch to “all”. That’s what I am doing right now in jerboa.

      • BeardedGuy@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        +1 Thanks for sharing this information! I know that there’s going to be a bit of a learning curve for the new platform and I appreciate you helping us all out!

      • gronapa@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        Good on you giving useful instructions for everyone . I got stuck with the wrong order of instance then community and was confused for a while

      • cities@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        that worked. I missed the sidebar button. I’m still not sure how to find it on ios app I downloaded but found it on web

    • slice@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      3 years ago

      I will normaly just go to the community on the instance of the community and then on the right side (don’t know about mobile) there is:

      " You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosting@slrpnk.net "

      on my instance you also have to add to the search that all servers schould be searched. And then it works out.

      Also some of links when I start brwosing the fediverse from my instance also bring me to the community without leaving my home instance but i didn’t figured this out jet.

      • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        it’s when you format a link like this /c/community@instance, instead of the full url. Example Link so regardless of your particular server instance, that link will stay local, if the linked community is not yet synced (federated) it will 404 though, that will happen a lot for a the first few weeks of growing this service, particularly if you are on a smaller server that might be updating slower or is under strain.

    • Kayzels@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, I noticed something similar. And occasionally it seems like instances disappear from it. I noticed that beehaw communities showed up a few days ago, but they didn’t today.

    • 🇺🇦 seirim @lemmy.proEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      How old is your instance, are you sure it’s set up correctly? Are you visiting and subbing from your instance to others? I think all that helps. Our instance is also very new and it seems to be federated ok as far as I can tell. And with a lot of connecting to other communities I think our “All” feed is working.

      • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        No idea, I didn’t make it. Probably about a week old if I’d guess. I am visiting and subbing to other instances. The All feed seems to be working okay, too. It’s federated as far as I can tell, but still doesn’t appear in that Lemmy Community Browser site: https://browse.feddit.de/