Unironically, I feel like this is the way to go with the fediverse. It takes the best parts of the old internet’s forums and the best part of the new internet. I hope more communities go this way instead of just being created on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world.

  • HedupEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I hope this really works. So far, though, the most annoying part is finding the community and subscribing to it.

    So far for me the process is very convoluted:

    1. I go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and find the community.
    2. Then I need to copy it’s name.
    3. Then I need to go to my particular instance (lemm.ee)
    4. Then I type manually in my browser address bar lemm.ee/c/<communityname>
    5. Then I go back to https://browse.feddit.de/ and copy the address of the original instance of the community.
    6. Then I go back and add the original instance address to already typed thing in step 4 like this lemm.ee/c/<communityname>@<originalinstanceofcommunity>
    7. Then I can finally subscribe!

    Oh my God! Please, tell me there’s a better way of doing this!

    • Luca@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      If you just click on communities on top of your instance, you can search across all instances yours is federated with.

      Note that communities will only show up there if someone from your instance has already visited it the manual way first.

      • HedupEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s the way to do it. Now seems so simple.