Anyone want to critique my approach? I’m trying to find and join federated communities to engage with through jerboa app…

For others reading along, I learned a good way to find communities is:

1)browse to http://browse.feddit.de and search for communities by title (“NFL”, “broncos”, “NFCN_meme_war”). This is to make sure you’re seeing if your desired community exists somewhere in the fediverse.

2)log into your account at a place like http://www.beehaw.org (for me it is http://sh.itjust.works)

3)search by the title again (not the url that feddit.de let’s you copy… Don’t know why)

4)click the link to the community, it opens in your browser

5)click the sidebar link, click subscribe

6)now you can log into your app (for me it’s jerboa for Lemmy) and see posts from those communities in your subscribed feed!

This seems arduous, and it is, but it’s just because I’ve been reading that search for communities in jerboa isn’t functional yet, because we’re all so new! It’ll likely get better soon

  • MajickmanW@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    One thing I’m wondering/would like to see, is a way to aggregate similar communities into a single feed.

    To continue with the NFL example, there are a few different communities with than name across a few different Lemmy instances.

    It would be nice if there was a way to link them within your account.

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    1 year ago

    You can search for the URL through your instance as long as your search type is set to All and not Communities. If your instance didn’t know about the community at first then you have to search again or click next for it to actually show the community, then you can click on it and subscribe.

  • Provenscroll@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    In my jerboa app I’m able to search when I’m in the all tab and subscribe to communities from other instances, is there any problem with doing it this way?

    • The Real Geno Smith@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m jealous! I haven’t been able to but, now with more knowledge, I’ll give it another go

      If it works for you, keep doing it!

      It would be awesome to just search “pancakes” in jerboa, and see the pancake communities in all the instances. Or even if I know pancakes@lemmy.world exists, to go search it outright from jerboa.

      We’re on a mission to learn!