tho, always happy to pin more
- why can my instance sometimes not find a community that I know exists (if you look at its home instance)?
- [federation] how can I follow a Lemmy community from and what will that look like? can I respond from , what does THAT look like on Lemmy and vice versa?
- [federation] can I search/follow users/hashtags in other fediverse platforms on Lemmy?
Naw, because sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I think lemmy.ml is just getting slammed right now.
Try it with a community from a different instance.
Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.ml
I just had to bash the search form a few times. Intra-instance community discovery/seraching seems to be a bit "sticky" for lack of a better way to describe.
Also, as the "prime" instance lemmy.ml is getting hammered with new Reddit exodus users at the moment, so I suspect lemmy.ml may not be the most responsive atm.
I also find that sometimes the search takes... a while?
So by wow you're talking about the world of warcraft community @ lemmy.ml?
Took a bit of futzing in the search screen but I see it:
Well that begs the question then - if communities are "homed" on instances (although the same community can exist on two different homes as completely separate communities) and then get "subscribed" or federated to other instances through searching, how does one know what all communities exist? Short of going to, or scraping the /Communities page of each Lemmy or Kbin instance, how does one know whats available?
Clearly we need a Lemmy411 Community. :)
Be the change you want to see in the world: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411 TADA!
I think mebbe that's what OP is missing. A new (empty) instance doesn't know anything about what other communities exist. @slashzero@lemmy.ml you gotta search for the communities before your instance will start snarfing posts.
Hrmm. Lets see. I've sub'd to @lemmy_support@lemmy.ml from my mastodon account. If this works, I should see THIS comment show up in my feed.
Fair enough. I was just surprised it popped up there, Im used to having to refresh the page to see new Reddit comments.
So besides this: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request - which... I just requested for MY account, but I have no idea exactly what context or how much Ill get (my account is 10+ yrs)... there are a few:
There are also THIS: https://redditcommentsearch.com/ and THIS: https://camas.unddit.com/ which I have used to spelunk through my comment history before, which you COULD use to make a dump of your Reddit history, but it could take a while and be onerous (maybe write a powershell script to bash those utils with direct POST and GET requests, dunno).
I just found one thing that Lemmy in browser does that Reddit doesn't do on the desktop. Your comment just pushed to the bottom of the thread I was writing a reply to. That was cool.
I remain smug in my purchase decision of a 2009 Town and Country.
(ain't no one stealing that pos)