The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?
self-promoting /c/autism!
I’ll join!
Join us on feddit.de to chat about boardgames (in english)
People knock lemmygrad.ml but I think it’s the best site for people who were nauseated by r/worldnews 🤷
I created a few shitposting communities that I really miss from reddit.
!rustjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - a place dedicated to making fun of rust programming language (actually mainly its competitors)
!vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny flags
!yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Europe and the EU in a humorous fashion
!truestl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Elder Scrolls shitposting
!femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - femboy memes
!data_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny graphs
!okbuddybaka@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - stupid anime memes
There isn’t anything going on there at the moment, but I hope in time they can prosper and produce some cool content :)
I’ve subbed to your trustl community!
may the gods watch over your battles, friend!
Do you also know if a community like r/hopeposting exists?
I do actually, there is !hopeposting@lemmy.world
I love you guys
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I just started https://sh.itjust.works/c/vtubers. I’m part of a small community of VTubers, and hoping to meet more people and make friends through Lemmy as well.
we’re just getting started so you’ve either been waiting your whole life for this instance, or you’re glad it’s on someone else’s rack.
PopHeads is for, well pop music-heads. and i’ve no clue how to link it so it works for everyone. that’s a regular web link, apparently !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech will work better for some.
the instance also just tipped up a meme community and plans to build out artist communities as well. the first is for taylor swift, so yeah, our mod buttons say ‘hater’ on them.
I’m focusing my instance on some niche topics that I find interesting, here’s what we’ve got so far.
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
Long Furbies → https://possumpat.io/c/longfurbies
Possums! → https://possumpat.io/c/possums
Thanks for the Star Trek one!
Thank you for your service!
No fucking way there’s a xenoblade community
Nothing much in there yet, and I need to set a banner, but it exists!
It’s amazing it already exist. Because “What we wish for is… A world with no gods”
I got a bunch made and I’m not super sure on the best way to share em, but slightly shameless plug on at least three.
VoidBunnies for pictures of jet black bunnies, this page also being one going under lockdown.
GoldenAgeMinecraft for those that wanna relive or share some of the old Minecraft Nostalgia
And assuming it shows up right, TuckedInKitties, for pictures of kitties all tucked in and all.
I got way more and wouldn’t mind finding some mods to help out in the coming days, but so far that’s just highlighting three.
Posted this elsewhere, but as people flood in maybe some community promotion isn’t a bad thing…
I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants to check them out:
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
Need to get a lemmy static going for the new tier!
Someone said you can format links so that login is not required to subscribe. I still don’t totally understand how all this works. The example they gave was /c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
Can I follow these from kbin?
You can! To subscribe to something on another instance just go to the general search and type
<community name>@<hostname>For example here’s a search for ffxiv@possumpat.io
I think so - if you search for those links on your kbin instance, I believe they should show up as magazines and you can subscribe to them the same way.
!cats@midwest.social is the long running cat-pic community.
no feed is complete without some cat pics. thanks for sharing.
Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?
Good question! You can copy the text !cats@midwest.social, then click the magnifying glass at top right and search for the community.
It should then come up in your search results, where you can visit from your own instance, and click to subscribe.
Easier way for Kbin seems to be dropping the “!” and putting it after Kbin.social/m/
So /m/cats@midwest.social should take you there.
Mastodon suffers from similar annoyances. I feel like this system could be improved, it’s pretty confusing for beginners. I support frontends rewriting links, I suppose (though I suppose there is the tricky issue of deciding what links point to the fedi. Maybe “!cats@midwest.social” should not be a link…)
Most definitely, although with many of these projects its probably not a case of not wanting to make it easier, but simply that it hasnt been implemented yet. I generally tend to link so that people can check out the community being referred to -
I agree, the copy->search user experience for exploring the fediverse is pretty terrible. For Lemmy at least, maybe any community ! links should automatically try to resolve on your instance? I also wouldn’t mind an extra little popup on hover, letting you choose to follow the link through to the original instance or have it search/open on your home.
Which is actually funny when you think about it because that would be integral to utilizing the benefits of the Fediverse.
It will get figured out in time.
It doesn’t even work on mobile for me. I save posts for later to join on my desktop. Lol
thanks, I got there in the end!
when I searched for that text/link I’m saw posts that referenced !cats@midwest.social (hyperlinks), and when I was first trying it was going to the front page and asking me to login or create an account - fail
but one of the posts that came up in the search had a different link … hovering over it showed https://sh.itjust.works/c/cats@midwest.social when I clicked on that one I could see cats@midwest.social … I could also see that I was still logged in as me, and there was an option to subscribe
hopefully that helps others in this brave new world … long live Lemmy and so long Reddit!
You might be able to see it from your home instance by clicking this link: !cats@midwest.social
Edit: nope that’s not working…
I am totally looking forward to seeing some cats that enjoy a good marathon.
There are a lot of communities to discover on kbin.social’s magazines , I have also made my own community for Buddhism, although I’m not sure how many people here are really interested in that.
slrpnk.net has some fantastic budding communities about living life more ecologically. Also some nice tech stuff – do give it a look!
!thescarydoor@kbin.social is a Futurama subreddit that I am shamelessly self-promoting. I hope that’s okay.
Edit: I don’t know how to link it properly, I guess.
Subscribed! For people on the lemmy side, just searching for https://kbin.social/m/thescarydoor should have it come up.
Thank you! I’m pretty new to all of this and I was just following what everyone else was doing haha
To make a system agnostic link, you do it [like this](/c/thescarydoor@kbin.social) for Lemmy. Not sure if kbin has javascript URL rewriting, not tried it. Those URLs also don’t work in Jerboa atm. Gonna take a bit before all the papercuts get solved.
Does this work: !thescarydoor@kbin.social
Try 2: thescarydoor@kbin.social
Not really, from lemmy.ml it ends up being a hyperlink over to the other website instead of a local community reference.
funnily this does not create a hyperlink (atleast on vivaldi) and if I enter that in ALL search the only result is your comment :D. Guess we are all still learning this.
Good news everyone!
!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz looks interesting.
!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one
!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one
Thanks, we’ll give it a go
Can confirm both of these are great 👍
map enthusiasts looks very cool.
