Hi all, I’m new here. On Reddit there is the front page where I can find popular posts even in obscurely named subreddits like “leopardsatemyface” or “okbuddycinephile” that I could never find by actively searching for it.
How do you discover content on Lemmy that is not in your local instance?
I even tried subscribing to “leopardsatemyface” from Lemmy.world, but my app doesn’t even show it in the search results even when actively looking for it. 🤨
Please help 🙈
Also if you don’t mind another stupid question, when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as “pending” and only a few minutes later as “joined” - why? What is it waiting for?
Which app are you using? When I got started I just looked at the „All“ feed in voyager and then subscribed to communities that I liked. There are also communities to promote communities like /c/[email protected]
Better link: [email protected]
You are right, I somehow completely missed that! I have an “all” in my left side bar (my client is called Jerboa)
What app are you using? I know on the website version you can just select ‘All’ on the interface at the top where it says Subscribed/Local/All.
Yes you are right, it is there, I just didn’t see it! 😂🙈 I’m using Jerboa btw.
https://lemmy.world/communities
You can set the filter from “Local” to “All” and you’ll find a direct community search on the side.
This, but with your local instance. OP is on programming.dev.
when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as “pending” and only a few minutes later as “joined” - why? What is it waiting for?
It’s synchronizing across servers. First it needs to ensure the remote server has your user object, then it tells the remote server to mark your user as subscribed to that community. And these aren’t immediate API calls, they’re queued up. Sometimes the message queue between servers has some other messages before yours so it may take longer than expected.
Thanks! I guess setting up a functional federated network is far from trivial. Reading about ActivityPub right now.
Unlike Reddit, Lemmy is small enough that you can browse by New/All and it’s a reasonable amount of time to scroll back through a day’s worth of posts. I do that now and then, and if I see a post in a community I like, I’ll subscribe to it.
I originally figured I’d do that for a while, then I’d just browse by Subscribed, but I find what I mostly do is browse by Top of however long it’s been since I was last on. Like if it’s been around 24 hours, I’ll browse by Top Day.
On top of what everyone else has said, when you visit the different feeds (Local, All, etc) you can set your sorting to Scaled so you are not completely overwhelmed with lowest common denominator stuff, and it will open up some options as you’ll see some smaller communities with niche interests.
Interesting! Thanks for the hint 😊
lemmyverse.net has a damn decent community search function. Additionally, on lemmyverse, you can sort all communities by Active Users, Publish Time(age of the community, newest first), number of posts or number of comments.
I just browse All the subscribe to communities I see and like. One thing you’ll find on Lemmy is that a lot of the communities are just Lemmy equivalents of Reddit subs, so if there’s one you like you can just search the name of what you like. It’s usually a case of find the version of the sub you want that’s the most popular. Because this is Lemmy and there’ll be different instances of the big subs, like if you want funny you might find [email protected] or [email protected], and more. There’s usually one instance which is the one to use. I understand they’re in the process of fixing this by having it so that they all sort of subscribe to each other and you can just follow one to follow them all. Unfortunately doing this involves using the search which I also find pretty terrible but I understand it’s also a priority issue they’re fixing right now.
Any idea why it doesn’t show the one from lemmy.world here?
