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.

  • ScrubblesEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    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.

    • TherodddEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Thank you for the fast response. It’s really appreciated. When I follow your link I still cannot subscribe. I get “not ogged in” whe. Trying to subscribe through the communities tab. Or I get the enter thing into the search bar prompt.

      • ScrubblesEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Hmmm, I haven’t done it through the app before, let me get back to you on this. I’ve been having some troubles with the app too…

          • ScrubblesEnglish
            2•11 months ago

            Of course! This is new to me, we’re all just getting started. There are going to be growing pains all over the place, hell maybe I didn’t set something up right. It’s new, we’re having fun :)

            • TherodddEnglish
              3•11 months ago

              I heard “were having fun” in a very Troy Lavallee voice.

          • ScrubblesEnglish
            2•11 months ago

            Oh don’t go to the link, paste it into the search bar from your logged-in instance. (The other one should also have worked, but again lemmy.ml is a bit slow and may be having issues).

            This is how it looked to me from the website, make sure “All, All, and All” are selected

            • TherodddEnglish
              1•11 months ago

              No Bueno. If I paste the link I do not find anything.

              • ScrubblesEnglish
                1•11 months ago

                In the search dropdown can you select “All” instead of Communities? For some reason that’s been working for me

                • TherodddEnglish
                  1•11 months ago

                  I can, and that finds results, but they are all post that Include the link. No actual ability to sub. If I find my way to the community it leads me back to the process that started my discussion here.

                  Thank you for all the help, you’re great and awesome and productive ;), but if it’s this difficult for me to sub to thing that want, then lemmy may not be for me. Keep up the amazing work and do what you do. It is appreciated!

                  • ScrubblesEnglish
                    1•11 months ago

                    Oh it’s in your last screenshot, the Subscribe button, it is very hidden away for sure, I may open a request for them to add it to the main screen there next to Sidebar. Glad you found it though! Those are some of the pain points I think they’re working on solving, some of those things you don’t think of until you get some users on your app

                    Edit: Opened an issue for it, hopefully your pain will make it easier for future users!