Sorry, newb fediverse question:

For example, I can browse here through sh.itjust.works/c/general@burgitt.moe just fine. But I can’t seem to browse, say, animemes@burgitt.moe. I think I read that a user on one instance has to attempt to browse a community in a federated instance, before it will appear on the first instance? But animemes 404s, while the federation clearly works because I can see general. Does it just take some time?

I’m just trying to get an account which is on a well-federated instance. I want access to posting free-speech instances like burggit, but I also want access to post on mainstream instances like lemmy.world which defed burggit. I actually started on lemmy.world but switched to sh.itjust.works after looking at which their defeds were (literally just burggit lol).

For that matter, if I want to find burggit communities that are new to me, am I mostly stuck browsing the burggit front page, which means I’m logged out of my sh.itjust.works account?

What I really want is a good way to browse an instance’s local front page, theme and all, while being logged in on another instance and still able to vote and post. I guess that’s going to come in the form of some app/browser extension we don’t have yet though.

  • inventa@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    10·
    1 year ago

    Keeping in mind that I’m also a noob in all this…

    You automatically get access and visibility to all the communities in the instance you register in. You can also search for communities in other instances, but those have to be ‘added manually’.

    So, you registered in Server A. When you go to local, you see all communities on that server.

    If you go to All, you see all the local communities plus those that have been discovered (either searched or subscribed) by you or a fellow member of server A.

    You can go to server B, manually and check their local communities. Then, back in your own server you search for it using the full thingy (!community@serverb.com) After a bit (time for the Server A to cache it) the community will appear on your search, and you’ll be able to subscribe to it from Server A.

    You can also, in web browser, use the full link to the community based on your Server. So https…serverA.com\c\community@serverb

    Anything you can interact with (subscribe, comment) will always be done through Server A, and the software in the background will do what it has two to reflect it in the original Server

      • neo (he/him)AEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Thankfully, on a larger instance like sh.itjust.works, all it takes is one other person doing it first to make it easy for everyone else.

  • The Entire Circus@burggit.moe
    4·
    1 year ago

    Just chiming in to say I’m happy to welcome you to this little outpost on the fringes of the Lemmy-verse (and to the Animemes community). There are definitely larger communities out there (some duplicates, even) with more people or activity, so it’s always a pleasant surprise when someone stops by here for a bit.

    Enjoy your stay!

    • GhostedIC@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      Thanks. I’m glad to see the Lemmy migration because there are several incidents that made me want a Reddit alternative a long time ago, I even tried out voat a little bit (the community here is already bigger and better, thankfully). The Animemes war over banning a single word was one such incident. I’m glad to see some free-speech oriented instances because they should be resistant to that sort of thing. As much as I like being in the main instances and seeing everything, the people over there have a lot to un-learn from old reddit culture that the admins tacitly encouraged.

      • The Entire Circus@burggit.moe
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yea, I remember that war… Reddit’s been going downhill for some time, but this might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. Hopefully it’ll be enough to encourage some to migrate over to Lemmy, even if it’s just to start a community as a “backup”.