this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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No Stupid Questions

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I want to find communities, so is there a community dedicated to finding communities?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't click the title, click the text starting wirh ! (like [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])) and paste it into search on lemmy.world. It will find that community and you can then click it and join.

Edit: If others are reading this, you can click the home button and setup your home instance, thay way the links will correctly go to your instance and the whole process is much better!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you! It worked, though quite cumbersome

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can also set your home instance and the links will open on the one that you choose. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you set your home instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Top right - home icon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does set your home instance mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Set the instance you have an account on/login to day to day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

yes, unfortunately finding, joining and linking to other communities across instances kinda blows now, but given how new lemmy is i think that will improve over time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah this feels like a big flaw in the systemyeah it's cool it's all communal, but being split is weird

Casual users will just want a 'subscribe' like you do on Reddit. They're not going to care about servers and instances and 3 different variations of the same community on different lemmys, that's just a hurdle.

I know this because nobody in my friend group has made the jump because it's too confusing. I'm the usual tech-guy early adopter in the group but most of this has gone over my head too.