I’ve noticed it with connect but they are there with Jebora. I’ve also noticed it’s hard to search for communities. But I think that may be a Lemmy issue.
I am, and I’ve noticed one welcomed effect it has had in me.
I’ll admit I had an unhealthy phone habit of mindlessly scrolling and Reddit nurtured this.
As much as I’m excited about Lemmy - the barriers I’m finding of finding content that appeases my desire to scroll has greatly reduced my phone usage. Smaller user base, inability (for me anyway) to find communities and content through the search etc.
Lemmy is just good enough for me not to go back to Reddit, but not matured enough to replace the addition.
I’ve never heard about this. You should send an email to all the developers of the 3rd party Lemmy apps to let them know. Could be a good consideration to allow to disable this in accessibility features.
Once you subscribe, your local instance will start copying stuff from the other instance to its local database.
I’ll be interested to learn more about all this, in particular how all these instances will scale up as the user base grows.
Thanks for that.
Such a coincidence, I just found that instances page and was trying to search for rust@programming.dev in the search! I head you had to search for the community from your instance and subscribe from there.
Thats interesting that ALL insrances are automatically federated.
Thanks for the replies. I’ve gone and submitted a request to join.
Quick, unrelated question if anyone is willing to answer:
Can we “subscribe” to another instances community if lemmy.sdf.org hasn’t federated to it? I think so, but I’m not even finding it easy to search for other communities. I’m looking at programming.dev in particular.
The 3rd party app developers might just do that. Boost for Reddit is making Boost for Lemmy now.
Do this, then visit https://ninite.com/ and choose what you want installed on it.