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Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
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Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
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That's it.
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Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
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Let everyone have their own content.
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Note you can only create a community in the instance you registered in.
But you can subscribe to communities outside? How do I find communities and subscribe to them outside of my instance? I have some, but I think they came during the initial setup.
Ok so you start subscribed to no one - what you saw on initial setup was the instance "all" or "local" feeds
The all feed is an aggregate of all the communities that the members of your instance follows
The local feed is an aggregate of all the communities that exist on your instance.
If you want to find and subscribe to communities outside your instance - you might have some success with the search function in Jerboa or on the web interface, but that will only show communities that your instance knows about.
There are also community aggregation websites that communities can register with like https://browse.feddit.de/
There are also Reddit migration lists like
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
Theres also the community on lemmy.world called [email protected]
Which isn't available to beehaw users, but it does advertised newly created communities across the fediverse.
If you have a URL of a new community, you can search it in the web interface on your browser, press the search button once, if it doesn't show up, wait a minute for the caching process to complete and press it again. It should show up in the results and you can click it to open it in your instance.
When linking communities on the threadiverse it's something like this:
[email protected]
When tagging users it's like this:
@[email protected]
Using these style links you can better allow people to browse the community or user using their instance to allow subscribing, commenting and following. Different apps have different degrees of support for it, but if you're on Jerboa or the web interface it works quite well.
Click on the communities tab up top, then make sure you select "All" instead of "local". You can search or scroll. And subscribe. I would go into the communities and see if they are active. Lots of communities are duplicated across instances but usually one becomes the main community that everyone ends up using.
Yes, and I've been told you can be invited to mod communities outside your own instance.
Jerboa has a search button, it's on the webpage too somewhere.
Hmm. Is the search showing me all the communities? It seems like the web page lists communities and I can't figure out how to actually find them on the app. I search communities and only like 10 come up for any given search term. And then 50% of them just perpetually say "pending" after clicking join
The "pending" part is a glitch. You are actually subscribed. I am still pending in a sub I am currently a moderator of.
The "pending" part is a glitch. You are actually subscribed. I am still pending in a sub I am currently a moderator of.
Are you using jerboa?
You search for a term and it'll give you communities with that term. There aren't many at this point. I've heard perpetual pending is a bug, you're subbed.
Interesting, I just assumed there would be more. Especially for some common topics. Yes, I am using Jerboa.
It's basically a ctrl+f function. There may be more related but unless it's in the community name it doesn't show up.
2 weeks ago this place was empty.
You are correct about the mod part. I'm a mod on a community outside of lemmy.world. Haven't noticed any missing features.