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
      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!

              • TherodddEnglish
                2•11 months ago

                The subscribe button just tells me that I am not signed in. Once again thank you for all of your time and effort and help. You rock.