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you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you're on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home
maybe I'm using it wrong, but right now If I'm browsing lemmy explorer and find a community on a lemmy.ca, I have to copy it then go back to my local lemmy where I have my account to add it
What you're describing is one of the root issues with the current system. It's the same reason that if your instance goes down, your account and history go with it. I'd love to see an implementation of some sort of account awareness like you said, which could also make it easier to backup history to another instance in the event that your primary goes down.
It's the main reason for mastodon feeling so off. Subbing to a community is something I can deal with, but having a network where you need to follow individuals and the way of doing it is cumbersome sucks. All of these places would benefit greatly if there was a solution.
I'm not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue "You are not logged in..." boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.
You can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: [email protected]
This way you'll reach that community while still "on" Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever.
I don't think you understood what I was suggesting.
Use the search function at the top of Beehaw
I don't use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let's pretend I do. My whole premise is I don't always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.
For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community's instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw's view of it
This is great! Feature request... Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub tho these communities easy. It's what I'm doing in a little javascript that has helped me tremendously!
That will take someone straight to being able to sub from their instance.
looks like OP is not one of the devs of this site. You should forward this idea to the github page that is linked there, as it's a great idea.
This is huge. Now take this data and tag each community with the closest subreddit and use the api to build a thing where you can plug your reddit user and Lemmy user to recreate your reddit account on Lemmy
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To be fair, browse.feddit.de already did this
Is there one that combines Lemmy and kbin communities?
Not that I've seen
Not yet but should be possible some time in the future
Would love that. kbin seems to be growing a lot these days.
650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that's a crazy growth!
p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful
This is great! Anything to make Lemmy adoption simpler and easier for newcomers.
Not sure if it is just me or is the problem on my work laptop, but Firefox is giving me a "Potential Security Risk Ahead" warning when trying to access the link.
Firefox isn't giving me that warning on my desktop, at least. Do you have HTTPS-Only mode on in Firefox security settings, maybe? I used to have that on, but it gave me false security risk errors all the time for some reason (no idea why) for a lot of websites. Especially it'd tell me a site didn't allow a secure connection/https, but then if I bypassed it and went to the site anyway, sure enough the url would actually show https and the little secure connection lock symbol, so as far as I can tell https is actually working fine.
If you're on a public network though I suppose interception is also a risk, when you're logging into things.
How is the instances list created? I just created my own instance last night and it's already in that list. Are all federated instances automatically listed?
I personally don't understand what's wrong with communities tab, it seems to give a pretty similar list to this when you apply filters looking for the most popular of all communities.
If no one in my instance has subscribed or looked for a community, I won't be able to find it with the search unless I have its address.
I find this really useful for small instances that don’t have a large communities tab.
Great resource.
What does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?
From my understanding, it's an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, [email protected] should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
Do you know if it is normal that Jerboa crashes when trying to open Lemmy links? I assume on desktop it works correctly, but I haven't used it as much.
I remember it working properly for me earlier but when I clicked the link in the comment you replied to, jerboa crashed for me too. maybe a regression or just something about this link causing a problem
Sweetest cherry pie!
the click to copy feature is neat
Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn't exist a month or two ago
Dope!
Wow. As a newcomer trying to make the leap over from Reddit, that’s really nice
This is extremely useful. I wanted to post a story about China but didn't know where until this post showed up. With this I get an overview over the instances which have China related Communities and they are sorted by users/posts/comments. This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it!
Oh and I checked it and my single user instance is there too :D
I love this!! Thanks for the link.
This is awesome! I love seeing the whole community here like this!
Very nice
Oh thanks, it was very useful :D
Brilliant!
Did the crawler break? Seems like it hasn't updated in a while.