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Is there a place I can go on lemmy where I can say "is there a community/magazine that has people's weird ideas they thought of in the shower" and if anyone knows of a place they'll point you to it?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.net/ seems better than a community for this tee bee aych

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's useful too, but sometimes it's hard to find them by keyword. Plus if the answer to a post is 'there is no community' and the post gets popular, it can be a nice way to kickstart the creation of a new community.

[–] marsara9 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.search-lemmy.com/ ?

I'm open to feedback though if the search results seem out of order etc....

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

Oh hey, this is great! Nice work, it found some pretty obscure communities in a few tests. I wish there was a megathread somewhere for Lemmy/fediverse tools like this.

[–] marsara9 2 points 1 year ago

Same. Honestly I need to create a community just for this tool IMO. But I don't have the time to moderate it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're coming over from reddit, try https://sub.rehab/

It lists most of the popular subs and their fediverse equivalents. E.g. the community you're looking for sounds like Reddit's r/showerthoughts, which has

https://kbin.social/m/showerthoughts

https://lemmy.world/c/showerthoughts

https://squabbles.io/s/showerthoughts

communities in the fediverse.

Even if you haven't used reddit, a lot of the sub names are pretty self-explanatory apart from some of the cryptic/memey named ones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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

Thank you for the tip! I see you linked to squabbles. Does squabbles require a separate register/login? I can't seem to figure out how to subscribe to it using my lemmy account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell I think it does require a separate login. I'm still relatively new to the fediverse and had a friend recommend squabbles, but I've already made an account here so have been trying to figure this out too tbh. Hopefully someone can correct me if it is possible.

[–] SmarfDurden 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may want to put an exclamation point (!) in front of that community name, to make it clickable. Thanks for pointing it out.

[–] SmarfDurden 2 points 1 year ago

I tried doing that but it doesn’t seem to make it clickable lol so I took it off thinking I did it wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago