Anyone want to critique my approach? I'm trying to find and join federated communities to engage with through jerboa app...
For others reading along, I learned a good way to find communities is:
1)browse to http://browse.feddit.de and search for communities by title (“NFL”, “broncos”, “NFCN_meme_war”). This is to make sure you’re seeing if your desired community exists somewhere in the fediverse.
2)log into your account at a place like http://www.beehaw.org (for me it is http://sh.itjust.works)
3)search by the title again (not the url that feddit.de let’s you copy… Don’t know why)
4)click the link to the community, it opens in your browser
5)click the sidebar link, click subscribe
6)now you can log into your app (for me it’s jerboa for Lemmy) and see posts from those communities in your subscribed feed!
This seems arduous, and it is, but it’s just because I’ve been reading that search for communities in jerboa isn’t functional yet, because we’re all so new! It’ll likely get better soon
If it doesn't appear in the search results, use "!community@server.com" in the search bar. That will create a connection between new instances too.
Appreciate it! So I search on feddit.de, then find, say, https://lemmy.ml/c/bills.
I then log in to https://sh.itjust.works, and search for !bills@lemmy.ml?
I'm off to try...
Edit: (for those reading along) it works fine! I am not finding a few communities that are listed on feddit.de, but it might be that those are new (less than 2 hours). Later they were located fine.
you need to refresh the search again if the community was not known to your instance at first. You can also just copy-paste the URL into the search and it should work. Make sure search type is set to All and not Communities