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I've already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances.

For science topics, mander.xyz has a lot of good ones set up, and !solarpunk@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net has been great!

edit: for new users - you can type ! to begin autofilling a community, even for ones on other instances, like I did for the solarpunk community above. It may take a few seconds for the autofill results to show up if you have a slow connection like me.

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[–] beto@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I launched lemmy.studio today, with the intent of hosting some music communities (music production, genres, different media, DAWs, etc.).

[–] yak@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

thank you, I was searching for something like that!

[–] orbit@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fantastic, I was looking for my /r/ableton replacement. Thanks!

[–] beto@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Feel free to create a community for Ableton there, or if you don't want to moderate it I'm happy to create it as well!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Gotta plug my instance :)

PopHeads and fans of pop music rejoice, I have an entire instance just for you. Come and post all of your pop music theories, favorite tracks, costumes, memes, snarky comments, and all other related things. Hell, create a new community if you like!

Will be creating more as interest demands, or create one of your own, we know there's already a few fans of Camila Cabello there and I know I love CRJ :)

Oh, and to ease the stress, my registration is currently open for any lurkers

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great to see a topical rather than a generalist instance!

That's what I thought when I set it up, I could either go broad with a few things I like, but I think if we're going to really see lemmy expand we need to see topical servers. People are welcome to register on my server if they like, but I view it more as a "import this to yours instance to enhance your communities".

[–] zalack@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a guide for how to register on multiple Lemmy instances? I am registered here, but noticed that I can't subscribe to communities on other instances? I assume I need to register there as well, but how do I get my subscriptions on both instances to funnel into the same place?

Thanks! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Nope you can subscribe to other lemmy instances. You just need to know their link. For example, if you want to follow my Taylor Swift community and become a full blown swiftie like me, you can do this: (Make sure All, All, and All are selected when searching)

[–] zalack@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the swift response!

[–] kethali@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While fine for me, I thnk this is going to be one of the bigger hurdles for newer users. It's not the most obvious, really. I'm not sure what could help, maybe some bookmarklet exists to make it simpler to subscribe via the instance you're using?

Completely agree, it's a major pain point. I've opened some issues on Github around it. Reddit had a manifesto that joining communities should the easiest thing to do, and we need to do the same here.

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[–] Theroddd@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds fun! Looks fun! However I am having trouble subscribing. Nothing is found when I search. Now, I know you aren't tech support but pointing me in the right direction and telling what I am doing wrong herr would be amazing.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Interesting. You can also try https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/c/popheads. On the website I know there's a bug where it doesn't show a loading spinner either, so it may take a few seconds after clicking search for it to show up even though it looks like it's not doing anything.

Lemmy.ml is also inundated with new members right now, they're actually 404ing for me right now, so they may be having issues connecting.

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[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

I'm on feddit.de, which is a German server whith a friendly community. There's also feddit.it and feddit.dk for Italian or danish people. Would be cool if we see more European feddits, that work together and help each other out.

And for my favorite communities that aren't on lemmy.ml

!gaming on beehaw.org and !ich_iel (which is the German version of me_irl) on feddit.de

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[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I quite like !privacyguides@lemmy.one It migrated from reddit, and the mods run their own instance rather than just making a community on lemmy.ml

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[–] beached@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does one follow a community from another instance. for instance, beehaw's gaming community I would like to follow, but when i am there, it makes be create a separate account.

[–] Kamirose@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In addition to what @Barbarian@lemmy.ml mentioned about changing the filter and searching, you can link it from your own instance like so:

https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming@beehaw.org

You can also grab the URL to any community or post on another instance, return to your own instance, and paste the URL into the search bar. If you're the first person to ever search for that server it might not find anything at first, but it'll fetch the data and probably work in a couple minutes.

[–] 1rre@lemmy.org.uk 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think you may be able to use relative links, eg:
gaming@beehaw.org

^ That one is done with [gaming@beehaw.org](/c/gaming@beehaw.org)
I don't think [!gaming@beehaw.org](/c/gaming@beehaw.org) works alone though?

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Go to Communities at the top, change the filter from "Local" to "All" and search for "Gaming".

If you're the first one who wants to register to a community from this server (not the case here) it's slightly more complex.

[–] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I quite like that Beecaw doesn't federate the Tankies.

I don't really need a genocide denying group ofauthoritarians in my face first thing in the morning.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

you're so real for this

[–] teruma@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

GenZedong and other communities shilling on lemmygrad. Some of these accounts post multiple pro-china, pro-russia, anti-usa articles per hour. I'm all for open discussion, but accounts like that are just propaganda pumpers

To be clear, not everyone and everything on lemmygrad is a tankie shill. We need places that are safe for discussion of political ideologies. But I mention lemmygrad because that's where the tankies seem to be flocking

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[–] NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

!gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone now with proper link :) Tried linking it on mobile using the new Mlem iOS app and managed to crash it. :D

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[–] bruhsoulz@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol wtf why is the comment bar all the way down here.. anyways id like to see unixporn if it isnt here already :0.

[–] kalkhas@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] pfr@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Should this also be viewable from a kbin instance?

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[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Bricriu@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do I subscribe to that sopuli one, since it doesn't show up in my local search results?

[–] phox@syrma.cc 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It should show up if you type it into your search bar like this !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

If that doesn’t work try copypasting lemmy.one/c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz in your adress bar. That’s how I subscribe to global communities from my own instance since the search can be slow at times.

[–] Bricriu@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The search didn't work for me, coming from lemmy.one. Didn't even show a "no results" message. Copypastaing the whole URL worked, but that is a deeply wonky interface :(

Thank you though! Subscribed.

[–] Dave 4 points 2 years ago

If you're the first one to try to search for a community on your server, it seems to get a bit wonky. But if you try to search it again now, it will probably show fine.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Is there an option to do All search results instead of local?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Oooh, I didn't know about the map enthusiasts one :)

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The first rule of moretankie196 is you do not talk about the first rule.

The second rule of moretankie196 is you DO NOT talk about the second rule.

[–] GenericPerson@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Communism and Tankies are cringe.

[–] ScarletCoconut@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tankies, when you don’t like the owning class exploiting workers, so you make the state exploit workers ☹️

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Folks who doesn't like to smile are cringe ;)

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago
[–] sillypuddy@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago
[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Tip: If you're thinking about making a community, google it first, like this:

Let's say I want to make a community for dogs. I'll google "c/dogs lemmy" and some variations just to be sure.

This has been working for me. If it doesn't come up, it probably doesn't exist

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