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Yes, I just saw the r/StarTrek migration, and visited Lemmy for the 3rd time or so this week, and quite frankly, I could drop reddit entirely now, if I knew how to find communities. I feel some real hacker/dev excitement for the future of Lemmy.

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On the communities page of your instance, select "All" instead of "Local" to search for communities on all servers, for example: https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

If anyone is wondering it’s still not quite perfect as some instances have inadvertently blocked federation while they deal with growth. It should work itself out once the dust settles

> have inadvertently blocked federation

I assume the Enterprise is on its way to resolve the issue diplomatically

The Enterprise also tried solving the ridiculous Reddit api pricing, but could not interfere because of the prime directive.

Important clarifying question: Kirk or Picard?

Janeway.

What for? The whiskey voice? Other than that she was quite erratic

Also, you can go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and find communities. If they're not available on your lemmy instance, you can copy+paste the URL into your lemmy instance's search field and as long as it's not blocked by the instance it will be federated from then on.

It's not the best experience and it's not obvious or intuitive. A browser extension could simplify it substantially, at least. As could new features in lemmy itself, but you want to be careful about every lemmy instance consuming the content from every other one, as that won't scale easily for the average lemmy admin.

> if I knew how to find communities.

This is the biggest source of friction for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Non-tech savvy folks will not make the shift if it is such a pain to find the communities you want to join.

What is a pain is „joining a remote community nobody on your instance has joined so far“.

For the usual cases the normal UI should work fine.

Adoption cycles are older than dirt. Only the innovators have to go alone, and they have a thick skin and a romantic notion of adventure. Just wait for someone to point out the new thing, and you can still be an early adopter. You can join in telling the late adopters that this forum is not appropriate for your peripherally related topic and you should post your question in X.

When feed readers worked for me, which was all the way back when Slashdot was in its early phase of decline, I would keep tabs on the domain named for the threads I got engaged in, and if I saw a pattern I’d go look for an RSS link, and then sometimes I got to be the one to post the interesting article.

I’m hoping Lemmy has a cross posting function that will serve a similar use case. You start in a woodworking forum here and someone reveals the DIWhy forum to you organically. After six to twelve months you have your hands full.

Out of curiosity... why not alt.startrek?

Other than the "not a lot is happening there now", but there's some activity.

The most recent posts on the server I'm on:

    The Lower Decks crossover to live action in Strange New Worlds
    Star Trek Discovery Canceled
    ‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Series in Early  Development at Paramount+
    Jack Crusher is how old?
    Star Trek The Lower Decks S03E09 was everything I wanted.
    (spam - into the kill file that poster went)
    TOS Film marathon
    (crossposted trolling - more kill file material)
    Captain Burnham mob/cops/big city episodes (Star Trek Discovery)
    (crossposted trolling - figured out how to do more complicated rules - "cross posted to more than 3 groups and newsgroups match \.politics\." with this reader)
    (crossposted trolling - even more kill file material)
    Ode to Spot. (this post is from 2012)
    When will the new Star Trek merge with the Twilight movies? (this post is from (2011)

No emoji. No reaction gifs. No memes.

Just text content.

edit: and as I write this, a new post just showed up in the past 2 minutes about Strange New Words S02E01.

No emoji. No reaction gifs. No memes.

So none of the things many people like. I loved usenet back int he 1990s, but the refusal to adapt to what users like to do is a large part of what killed it.

Let us know if/when you figure out how to find communities. Discoverability seems to be a real problem with Lemmy.

I literally can't even sign up for Lemmy.world. The button after entering a new username/pw just spins indefinitely, forever.

If I were a smart man, and that seems to depend on the day of the week, I’d put the services that can swamp the whole system on a separate VM that’s resource constrained so it has its own back pressure built in.

It’s possible you’re seeing a bug, and it’s also possible that The System is Working.

I can tell you that the login link takes me to a form on Safari. When did tech people stop stating which browser they’re using and what quirky tools they have installed?

Try a different server, ideally one closer to you. Lemmy.world is currently the most popular server (located in Finland) which has seen the largest influx.

Here's a big list of servers (and their countries) sorted by MAU [1]. Note that the MAU data is out-of-date now that there's been a huge spike in the past few days.

[1] https://the-federation.info/platform/73

It's a bit confusing because it doesn't notify you that a verification email has been sent when you sign up. If you've already checked your email maybe try the spam folder.

I just use the communities tab [0], that's on every instance. Then select All to get a list of all communities federated with this instance sorted by size.

Other wise I just, use the search bar. I just tested it with the goal of finding a photography related community. Found it with the first search result from "photography". [1]

Another example, I wanted to find a risc-v related community, one simple search [2], boom, I found one [3]

[0] e.g.: https://feddit.de/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

[1] https://beehaw.org/search/q/photography/type/All/sort/TopAll...

[2] https://beehaw.org/search/q/riscv/type/All/sort/TopAll/listi...

[3] https://lemmy.ml/c/riscv

Edit: Also, idk how I missed it, but the communities tab [0] also has a search, so there you go, I don't even know what else you'd want.

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