I think this could help you - https://browse.feddit.de/
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bdonvr
joined 2 years ago
I don't think an unmodified Reddit app would be able to effectively browse the fediverse no matter how good a translation API is, but it could mean a lot LESS work for an app designer making a lemmy app.
At least one person on each instance needs to search for it. (While logged in) This will make the instance "discover" your community.
They can either take the full url, https://lemmy.ml/c/skypictures or !skypictures@lemmy.ml and paste it in their instance's search bar.
They're working on making this a bit more automatic but for now that's how it is.
You've marked your post NSFW for some reason
Ah I'm really not worried about my "local" instance. I just go to the "all" and "subscribed tabs. Honestly it makes it a lot less confusing and much more cohesive for the end user if they can pretty much ignore the instance and think "oh it's Reddit but usernames and subreddits look like emails"
Yep, that's my thoughts. I'm gonna cap my instance at a low number. (Gonna start at 100 and see what usage is like) It's not much but it's what I can do without worrying about crazy hosting costs.
See my comment. It should work now, as I said above it might say "no results" the first time. Just means you're the first user on your instance to search for it :)
Take the full URL of the community you're looking for, and paste it into the search bar of sh.itjust.works while you're logged in. https://lemmy.ml/c/yuzu (you can also search !yuzu@lemmy.ml)
It might say "no results" but go back to the community page and check again. Then subscribe.
At least one user on your instance has to have searched for it before. The devs are working on making this happen more automatically, but that's how it is right now. Just one person on your entire instance has to do this one time, then it should work for everyone else there.
And note, comments and older posts won't come over immediately but you should start seeing all new posts and comments.
That's probably because lemmy.ml "discovered" that community long before my instance did. I should get all NEW posts from today onwards, but not old ones. It's supposed to grab the top 20 current posts so that it doesn't look empty, but I'm guessing that's a kbin-lemmy incompatibility
Well yes, if you simplify pretty much everything online enough it becomes "send message to this address".
With email, that's pretty much it.
With ActivityPub, after being received that message gets federated out to all servers that have a subscriber of whatever service the message was sent to.
The difference is more about implementation, conceptually. Email is just far more one-on-one
Kinda, sorta.... not really. Eh
On email nothing really "federates". A message is sent to user@server.com and that's the extent of it.
No. The comments are saved by every instance that has at least one user subscribed to !jimbo@rambo.com. If Rambo.com goes down, you wouldn't be able to make new content but I'm pretty sure everyone else could view what was there.
On Reddit there was /r/tech and /r/technology. One of those became the big, go-to sub.
Same will happen here, just give it a bit of time.