what are some good communities NOT on beehaw.org or lemmy.ml?

lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org to Chat@beehaw.org – 12 points –

let's spread the love so other instances/communities can be discovered easier

here are a few I recommend:

!retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

!steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

!hockey@lemmy.ca

!moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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Unapologetic shill time:

🪴 Plants

🏺 Archaeology & Related

🌎 Geography

Ya'll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎

Check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world for new communities that pop up. :)

ooh, a lot of good ones there!

I always liked browsing houseplants on reddit and being in awe, considering I'm the most prolific houseplant serial killer of all time

I still don't quite understand how to subscribe to other communities on this thing.

I will normaly just go to the community on the instance of the community and then on the right side (don't know about mobile) there is:

" You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosting@slrpnk.net "

on my instance you also have to add to the search that all servers schould be searched. And then it works out.

Also some of links when I start brwosing the fediverse from my instance also bring me to the community without leaving my home instance but i didn't figured this out jet.

it's when you format a link like this /c/community@instance, instead of the full url. Example Link so regardless of your particular server instance, that link will stay local, if the linked community is not yet synced (federated) it will 404 though, that will happen a lot for a the first few weeks of growing this service, particularly if you are on a smaller server that might be updating slower or is under strain.

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Oh thx good to knwo :)

I'm really hoping https://kbin.social/m/folklore takes off, but at the moment that server has disabled federation because they're having trouble scaling up to handle all the new traffic. The creator translates a lot of German folklore into English and seems very passionate about folklore and mythology.

Today I also learned about !germany@feddit.de for English language discussion about Germany.

If kbin is able to scale up, will we be able to interact with kbin through lemmy, like we do with other lemmy communities?

When I first got here, kbin.social was interacting with Lemmy just fine. They turned on cloudflare DDoS protection and it broke their federation is my understanding. Fedia.io is a different kbin server that should be federating like normal. Try checking out !random@fedia.io.

Yep! It should be almost exactly the same!

It would be nice to see a new home for Tabletop Game Design; much enjoyed the discussions around both role playing and board/card games alike.

https://feddit.de has a few German language communities of you're interested in such stuff.

Machen wir das hier auch wie auf reddit, dass das Erwähnen eines deutschen Unters sofort alle deutschen Nutzer aus allen Ecken herbeiströmen lässt?

It's a small community but I like !engrish@vlemmy.net (I really think we need a better way to link communities.)

We just need to understand the convention

Instead of r/<community name> we have !<community name>@<instance name>

I think it's doable

Yeah but instead of just being able to click the link and subscribe you have to copy/paste the link in to the search bar on an entirely different page and then make sure all your search filters are set correctly and then maybe wait a bit if no one has accessed it before from your instance and then you can click subscribe. It needs to be way easier than that, like with RES you could just hover over a linked subreddit and click subscribe without ever even leaving the page.

If I format a link like this : link it technically works in an instance agnostic way, but you are going to hit a lot of 404s on smaller communities until those communities federate out into the wider network. !memes

Does anyone know how to add new instances to the Lemmy Community Browser? It doesn't have the one I'm from nor the communities from it. Are they automatically scraping communities somehow or is there a dev we can ask them to add new communities and instances to?

https://browse.feddit.de/

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