Some people have been asking which communities they should join first, so I posted some remote communities you can subscribe to on the sidebar on the homepage :)
Tech → !technology@beehaw.org
News → !news@beehaw.org
Gaming → !gaming@beehaw.org
Memes → !memes@sopuli.xyz
Privacy → !privacy@lemmy.ca
FOSS → !foss@beehaw.org
Monero → !monero@monero.town
Music → !music@beehaw.org
Books → !literature@beehaw.org
LGBT → !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
Nature → !greenspace@beehaw.org
Sports → !sports@beehaw.org
Programming → !programming@beehaw.org
Find another cool community? Leave a comment :)
There’s also this universal community search tool you can try using. If you find a community, just copy its URL and paste it in /search to subscribe to it here. This just goes to show that while there might not be many local communities here on lemmy.one yet, the beauty of the fediverse means that doesn’t matter!
I’m here from reddit, and thank you for these recommendations. Time for my neuroplasticity to kick in so I can learn how all this works.
Also here from Reddit. Lemmy actually feels like how Reddit *used *to feel in its early years, i.e. fresh community with fresh ideas. Love it!
Avoid beehaw
What don’t you like about it? I find Beehaw pretty great. The only thing I could think of is that they’ve defederated some of the larger instances, but it’s understandable given their content philosophy and the current state of moderation tools on Lemmy (really terrible).
Why?
They’ve defederated over 400 instances including lemmy.world, they want centralization
Just wanted to say, thanks for hosting this instance! I’m a reddit refuge and this Lemmy instance has been really straightforward on how to get started.
We’re open for all!~
🪴 Plants
- Houseplants !houseplants@mander.xyz
- What’s this Plant? !plantid@mander.xyz
🏺 Archaeology & Related
- Archaeology !archaeology@mander.xyz
- Anthropology !anthropology@mander.xyz
- Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales !folklore@mander.xyz
🌎 Geography
- Geography !geography@mander.xyz
- Biodiversity !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- Earth Science/Geosciences !earthscience@mander.xyz
- Geospatial !geospatial@mander.xyz
- Historic(al) Map Porn !old_maps@mander.xyz
- Palaeoecology !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
🔬 Science
- Science Communication !scicomm@mander.xyz
Ya’ll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎
Does anyone know of any communities for pigeons or capybaras (or tbh any other weird-but-cute critters)?
Edit: adding some as I find them:
I was going down the universal search tool list, subscribing to the communities that I was interested in, and I ran into an issue trying to sub to some of the communities. Thankfully I was able to quickly find the answer - anything that is on the block list under https://lemmy.one/instances you are not able to subscribe to from this instance.
Work Reform & Unionizing! - !workreform@lemmy.world
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Does anyone know if you can hide posts in Jerboa? This post and a lemmy.one welcome post are pinned at the top of my feeds, and they take up a lot of room visually. I’d also like to hide posts I’ve already seen, as on smaller communities I only want to see the occasional new posts, not see the same post from 3 days ago every time.
Found a few very small communities with just a few posts from the universal search tool, when I search for these (they are on other instances) I can’t find them. They are not on a blocked instance (both are on lemmy.ml), am I doing something wrong or is there some limit in size of community that are reachable through federation? Thanks, am very new to how the federation works in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
Click the copy icon to the right of the community name on the search tool, then go to https://lemmy.one/search and paste in the URL it copied, and the community should show up. If it doesn’t immediately show up: wait 30 seconds, refresh the search page, and try again, and then it will work.
Thanks, this worked. I was searching “community@instance.tld” but they showed right up when I used full URL copied from the search tool.
That should work too, but maybe you need an ! at the beginning, like
!community@instance.tld
I can’t see some lemmy.ml communities like “sports” or “Star citizen”
You can’t see them if nobody here has subscribed to them yet, but if you paste the URL for those communities in https://lemmy.one/search, they’ll show up.
What am I missing? I have subscribed to a few lemmy.ml communities here, but despite seeing https://lemmy.ml/c/overwatch2 as an extant community, trying to subscribe to !overwatch2@lemmy.ml returns errors/not found on lemmy.one’s side. Is this community blocked here?
lemmy.ml has a lot of federation issues unfortunately (uptime issues in general, actually). There’s not much that can be done until their server is fixed, and yes I agree it’s very annoying, but they’re working on it 👍
Should this be edited to remove Beehaw now that they have de-federated?
AFAIK beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Not lemmy.one at the moment
They are only de-federated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
Lemmy.one is still federated with those two and beehaw.org
That means it has no impact on us at all, afaik. I’m no pro but I just made a new account, after having a beehaw one, on this instance specifically to see if I could still see everything on all three, and I can.
If anyone else is missing Breaddit as much as I, [!bread] (!bread@lemmy.ml) (I think, bear with me as it’s my first time trying to link to a community) seems like a good place to start.
Is this link better? https://lemmy.ml/c/bread
If you link it like this: Bread
it will be load that community on the user’s own instance, so they can just hit subscribe instead of having to search for it back on their own instance.
[Bread](/c/bread@lemmy.ml)
