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I'm new here, fleeing reddit and it's war on anonymity. Happy to be here!

I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.

I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the 'Privacy' community as my example: when I hit 'subscribe' and enter 'Lemmy.world' as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with 'Server error'.

I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.

Any hints?

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[-] reliant8521@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for the in-depth response :) I've discovered I can copy / select text within summit - something I used to find an annoying limitation of the reddit app, so that's nice to have. So far I've discovered that community discovery within lemmy.world is just as easy in-app, but it is easier to search other servers from the web instance. So far, for things like referencing text whilst formulating a response I totally agree, but for shorter stuff I'm happy to app-switch between summit and web if needed, and for longer stuff, as an elder web user I'm no stranger to using a laptop.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 4 hours ago

Yes, non-phone browser offers by far the best experience, but also doesn't fit into every workflow so that's the downside. Ofc it depends on what you want from the Threadiverse - long conversations about philosophy and poetry (I've done that! Using a laptop definitely was mandatory for it!!) vs. doomscrolling through shitpost memes to take a mental break between things at work or home (taking a break from bigger screen to stare at small screen).

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