Not mine, just cross-posting.
you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you’re on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home
maybe I’m using it wrong, but right now If I’m browsing lemmy explorer and find a community on lemmy.ca, I have to copy the address manually and then go back and find it on my local lemmy where I have my account to add it
You can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: !ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This way you’ll reach that community while still “on” Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever.I don’t think you understood what I was suggesting.
Use the search function at the top of Beehaw
I don’t use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let’s pretend I do. My whole premise is I don’t always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.
For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community’s instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw’s view of it
This is great! Feature request… Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub to these communities easy. It’s what I’m doing in a little javascript that has helped me tremendously!
- Set a homeInstance type variable (ie; https://lemmy.ml) - manually inputted or select from found instances?
- Add a button that links to "homeInstance + “/search/q/!” + community + “@” + site + “/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1"”
- site is remoteinstance.whatever
That will take someone straight to being able to sub from their instance.
For anyone wanting my javascript that helps with subbing. Check my post here: https://thesimplecorner.org/post/4320
Oh thanks, it was very useful :D
This is huge. Now take this data and tag each community with the closest subreddit and use the api to build a thing where you can plug your reddit user and Lemmy user to recreate your reddit account on Lemmy
🤯
To be fair, browse.feddit.de already did this
For some reason, browse.feddit.de only caches our Episodes community, but lemmyverse.net caches our entire instance. 🤔I think I got it figured out. Spacing! And the two services look for different things.
Is there one that combines Lemmy and kbin communities?
Would love that. kbin seems to be growing a lot these days.
Dope!
Not sure if it is just me or is the problem on my work laptop, but Firefox is giving me a “Potential Security Risk Ahead” warning when trying to access the link.
Firefox isn’t giving me that warning on my desktop, at least. Do you have HTTPS-Only mode on in Firefox security settings, maybe? I used to have that on, but it gave me false security risk errors all the time for some reason (no idea why) for a lot of websites. Especially it’d tell me a site didn’t allow a secure connection/https, but then if I bypassed it and went to the site anyway, sure enough the url would actually show https and the little secure connection lock symbol, so as far as I can tell https is actually working fine.
If you’re on a public network though I suppose interception is also a risk, when you’re logging into things.
Did the crawler break? Seems like it hasn’t updated in a while.
Sweetest cherry pie!
This is awesome! I love seeing the whole community here like this!
Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn’t exist a month or two ago
There is so much Lemmy to go around. Cross posting this explorer for finding communities.
650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that’s a crazy growth!
p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful
This is extremely useful. I wanted to post a story about China but didn’t know where until this post showed up. With this I get an overview over the instances which have China related Communities and they are sorted by users/posts/comments. This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it!
Oh and I checked it and my single user instance is there too :D
What does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?
From my understanding, it’s an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, !technology@beehaw.org should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
Do you know if it is normal that Jerboa crashes when trying to open Lemmy links? I assume on desktop it works correctly, but I haven’t used it as much.
This looks like a great resource! However, I’m having trouble subscribing to some lemmy communities on kbin. I tried copying the community name into the kbin magazine search but nothing is found. Do I just need to wait for federation issues to be fixed or is there something I need to do to “push” communication between different instances?
(Edit: I didn’t even realize at first that this post is on beehaw. Looks like I still have some work to do getting acclimated to the fediverse.)On Kbin if the community you want isn’t showing in the magazine list, what you need to do is go to the search bar that searches the whole site and type in the Lemmy community name followed by an @ followed by the instance name. For example: firefox@lemmy.ml
After searching it should come up and you can subscribe to it. It only shows up in the magazines list once someone on the instance subscribes to it, so if you are the first to subscribe to it you have to do a manual search first
It worked! Thank you so much!
I didn’t realize that searches for outside communities need to be done in the general search bar and not in the magazine search.I only see one search on my mobile view. Where is the general search bar located?
What I called the general search is the magnifying glass icon at the top of the page on mobile. To get to the magazine search you have to tap the general search then tap magazines on the next page.
