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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.
Oh this would be nice, a standardized way to back up instances so in the case of one going down forever someone else could pick it up and start running.
I know I'm happy to run my instance, I have a great fiber line and a solid infrastructure, but if I get hit by a bus tomorrow I'd want someone else to pick it up and get running
A one-click account transfer to a different instance would be great. However, there can be several "gotchas", maybe the target instance has lower "permissions", so that can lead to data loss. Eg: my instance doesn't allow pictures more than 100 kb, some other instance doesn't allow creation of communities. So this needs to be carefully throughout.
Seems the easiest solution to that would be to simply have a comparison view. The permissions are setup using some sort of standardized method, yes? Config file, GUI (which just alters config file), whatever. Certainly it wouldn't be hard to simply grab and organize a list of perms from both instances and toss em up side by side. Could even add notes (i.e. if photo storage on Instance A > Instance B notify user that "migrating to this instance may cause some larger photos to be removed from your account").
I'm not a professional programmer (sys admin, so mostly just automation) but there are certainly solutions to this.
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.
yup, I do the same, I copy/paste the URL in the "search" box, it works, but it is not convenient...
This is great! Feature request... Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub to 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.
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.
Really well done! Much better to browse than browse.feddit.de I just wish you could "login" and hide the communities you're already subscribed to :p
That one was missing a bunch of instances and communities for some reason, too. I'm glad we've got this new way to look at everything.
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.
Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn't exist a month or two ago
Wow. As a newcomer trying to make the leap over from Reddit, that’s really nice
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.
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
I love this!! Thanks for the link.
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
Very nice
Great resource.
Oh thanks, it was very useful :D
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?
the click to copy feature is neat
Sweetest cherry pie!
This is awesome! I love seeing the whole community here like this!
Dope!
There is so much Lemmy to go around. Cross posting this explorer for finding communities.
This is awesome!
Did the crawler break? Seems like it hasn't updated in a while.