People need to realize you can use alternatives

  • Menachem@midwest.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

    • Sinnoh@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Let me see if I underatand this correctly:

      If I create an account on a random, small instance. And then go to the “all communities” feed. I can automatically see all communities that are in my instance. In addition to that, I can see all communities of other Lemmy instances, that are “federated”. But I cannot see other communities from other nstances, unless I go on there, find the communitis and manually subscribe to them (I believe there are other ways to get them to show up, like using the search etc.?)

      So, as a normal user. Who’s just looking for a replacement for /r/all, wouldn’t joining the largest lemmy instance that is fedarated to many others (Just by how many users it has, because it’s the users who link instances by their actions?) make perfect sense?

    • Anon125@feddit.nl
      0·
      1 year ago

      I tried subscribing to a specific feddit.de community using Jerboa and I haven’t been able to yet. Not sure whether I’m misunderstanding something or whether that’s not possible.

        • Anon125@feddit.nl
          0·
          1 year ago

          I have an account and I’m logged in. I’m posting this from Jerboa. But it’s not a feddit.de account. Maybe I’m missing something.

          • RoosterBoy@lemm.ee
            01·
            1 year ago

            Jerboa search only finds communities that at least 1 person on your instance subscribed to, to find new communities from other instances easily I like to use https://browse.feddit.de/

            Then when you find a community, go to the web version of your instance (don’t worry it’s (mostly) mobile friendly) and type !name@instan.ce (don’t forget the !) Then you can subscribe there. Close and reopen Jerboa and your new community will show up in the list. The Jerboa devs are working on fixing this.