What Lemmy … Group do you follow ( still not sure how do you call them)
For now I just have :
- @share_your_art
- @piracy
- @vim
I’m sure there are more interesting ones that I’m not aware of :)
And the best part you dont even have to have an account there thanks to #activitypub and the #fediverse
Lots already. Of course depends on what your interest are. For ex. my subs
Edit: Fixed links for desktop, no idea if it works the same for mobile apps
Write it like
[/c/[email protected]](/c/sublemmy@lemmy.server)and it will link correctly. If it’s giving you a 404 error just wait a minute and try again, the server needs to download the sub firstIf you format your links like this…
/c/[email protected]
the links will be clickable and the user can subscribe to them from their home instance.
Thanks, I don’t know the proper way of formatting yet as it seems to depend on who you ask. Early days still.
Edit: Getting a 404 error when following that link on my sh.itjust.works instance. Think this is part of the problem.
To make the link work,
Had to do all that to make the link work. 🤦
Yeah this looks like a pain point at the moment. I’m going with “I’m a newb to lemmy’s way of linking” by default as I’m sure I’m just doin it wrong. If not, hopefully that can be made more seamless, or the knowledge of how to do it the right way can spread far enough that it becomes a non-issue.
It’s taken me awhile to figure out stuff. I’m still confused about certain things as well.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I’m still a newb but I’ve managed to learn a lot the last week or so
Thanks! I did have a question about comments.
When I view an external post from my home instance, it has less comments than the source. Does it eventually catch up? How long does that take usually?
Here’s screenshots of what I’m talking about. My home instance is monero.town and the post has 39 comment. When I click the rainbow fedilink icon that takes me to the source instance at beehaw it has 70 comments.
Will my home instance eventually show 70 comments as well? It’s a 2 day old article. How long does it take?
I feel like I’m missing out if I don’t go to the original source every time. But if I go the original source, I won’t be able to comment or upvote because I’ll be on their instance instead of my home instance.
Just looked into it and actually both servers are counting the wrong number of comments lmao. They both have 34 in that thread, and are the exact same comments. Definitely a bug.
@phloatingman Yeah I think something’s broken or mis-coded perhaps. Looking at things, I think the exclamation point needs to be removed from the final URL to work.
(IE: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] -> https://kbin.social/m/[email protected])
I think I might use Redirector to correct it internally in the interim
@share_your_art @piracy @vim @hyde @sneakyninjapants
That is likely because you instance hasn’t pulled the information about the community.
For me the reliable way to make it do so is to type it into a search bar (in the format !community@instance), as the message in the sidebar of communities on other instances say. And then refresh the page, to see that it actually did that.
You’re likely right. Just checked the link again and it’s now showing a community. Thanks again!
Edit: how are you formatting that link?
literally just the link?
/c/monero@monero.townor is it something like how links work on markdown?
[/c/[email protected]](https://idk-what-here/c/monero)If you click the source icon, it will show you the markdown code for any post or reply…
https://files.catbox.moe/993ba0.png
Beautiful! Thank you! Me dumb dumb big time.
[/c/[email protected]](/c/monero@monero.town)^ how its written in the text box
/c/[email protected]
^ how it shows up once submitted
There! I did it!
I think that should be a question to @[email protected]
Sorry, I meant how did you write it out in the reply box, since it seems to take markdown format I wasn’t sure.
I am probably missing something, my comment doesn’t have any links
Yeah I’m not doing a good job putting my thoughts to text.
/c/[email protected]
^ Copy-pasted this from your previous message
How did you write that out when you were typing the reply?
Warning: if you are using Jerboa, the /c/ notation will crash the app, at least the playstore version (0.0.33), I don’t know if its fixed on the latest version
0.0.34 also crashed.
Do I have to creat an account for each instance? I don’t understand :(
No not at all. Just try pasting
https://lemmy.ml/c/piracynewsInto the search page. It should bring up a link to the community in the search results, maybe immediately if someone from dbzer0.com has already subscribed there, if not it might take a few seconds. You should be able to follow the link in search and subscribe in the sidebar once you get there.@sneakyninjapants Great post, thanks for sharing!
@share_your_art @piracy @vim @hyde
thanks a lot for this!
No problem! I’m going to revise my post now that I’ve figured out how to link to a sub properly, so check back in a few.