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What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personally i'm looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it a bug, or defined behavior for a reason I just don't quite grok yet?

I'm a typescript vet, and if I really stick to lemmy I can see myself trying to help out a bit... but I also get about 4 hours of sleep a night, so it won't be soon ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have no idea. I'm currently trying to learn typescript to turn a link like this into this dynamically based on the base URL you're seeing the page from. I'm lost and don't know where to start.

EDIT: WHAT?!?!? THAT WORKS ALREADY?

test

EDIT 2: MUST PUT PSA IN LEMMY NOW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lol! What format are you using? The reddit-like link format? That's standard markdown I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's defined behavior because the idea (sort of from mastodon I guess???) is that there's the local instance and it's communities, and then the federated world. Presumably some people want to ?maybe? stay close to home? It's def a techie way of thinking, like having your own internal wiki, and then knowing about wikipedia say.

It made sense to me because I already worked it out for mastodon, but otherwise I can see how that's confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm... Weird. I kinda figured the "Local/Subscriptions/All" toggle would be what defined if I'm checking Federated, and not the "Community/Comments/Posts/All" toggle. I understand the "URL" option if I want to search for a URL. I guess maybe it treats a federated community as a URL even if it's typed as a community?

I'm on Mastadon as well, and for some reason never tripped up on this. But I'm not sure I've sought out any remote communities in Mastadon like that.