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Random Communities that your Lemmy instance doesnt display. (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to make a thread of Lemmy communities that people should know about.

Jerboah (which makes Lemmy usable for me) or my instance have real troubles finding a lot of communities on distant servers, and opening them from Firefox also doesnt work.

We dont need more tech stuff, we need to make Lemmy more useful!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you like our communities so much, you could also create an account on slrpnk.net ๐Ÿ˜Š

But yeah, two smaller instances with not much overlap in interests by their users tend to not federate well and you need to go the extra mile to search out the communities and subscribe to them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Did it!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There is a website named lemmy-federate.com for this job.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Awesome!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does it actually work? All of the jobs are "in progress" except one one the homepage

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It works, those statuses are just a bit misleading

How it works is it subs to a community (from all instances connected to it) until someone from an instance subs and then it unsubs in that instance. In the previous version of the site when it unsubbed it would mark the instance it unsubbed from as completed on that community (although seems to be a bit broken here)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, the status is broken. The tool is working but not unsubscribing.

The source of the problem is that I cannot access the count of local subscribers at the moment. Therefore, it is not clear whether the tool should unsubscribe or not. I've created a merge request for this and the problem will be fixed in 0.19.4.

It looks like reddthat.com is on 0.19.4 and it's working correctly for them now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TBH I don't know. I never tried it before. Unfortunately there is no contact form on the site either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, feel free to crosspost to [email protected] or even [email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, exactly what I searched for.

Lemmy has a huge problem with federation of small servers it seems? At least my server has immense troubles loading anything from some servers and it seems clicking the ! Links forces the server to load them.

I think every instance should promote a random community every day to prevent this tech-only and only big community monopoly

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Definitely. On [email protected] we listed a few non tech communities in the sidebar, feel free to have a look

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wrong handle:

[email protected]

vs.

[email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Imagine Git for Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Usually if a community doesn't load the first time, I just refresh the page and it loads.