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Anyone want to help build up a Manchester Lemmy community? (mcr.town)

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

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Anyone in, from or interested in Greater Manchester?

I guess this will be more difficult now that the Reddit sub is back online but I've set up a Manchester group at [email protected] - please feel free to come along, post stuff and have fun!

You might notice it's on a Manchester-based instance too (mcr.town) - feel free to join that too. It's a sibling site to our small (but active enough) Mastodon site (mcr.wtf) which is also open to new people

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’ll check it out! Also check out the communities over at feddit.uk

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

I've subscribed now. It's nice to see a mcr based lemmy, masto and fedi presence. :D

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

I'll join from kbin (federation is still too cool to me to not call it out)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's great, isn't it? I was having a conversation with someone on here the other day and didn't realise they were on Mastodon. I'd shared the original post there and replies turned up in Lemmy and vice-versa. It's very cool.

The only thing I wish could be improved is the having to manually go back to your home instance and search for a community on another server. It feels even worse than the same process on Mastodon, which already feels clunky.

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

I'm on Kbin and was having a conversation with someone on Mastadon on a Lemmy instance! It's magic!

But yeah, I would really like a script of browser plug-in that would add a "subscribe on my home instance" button. Unfortunately I've barely done any programming in the last decade and I always hated web programming so I'm not the right person to make that!

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

Install this to your bookmarks bar, and if you find yourself on an external community you can just click it to be taken to your local version instead. You'll still get the occasional 404 if your instance hasn't indexed it yet but those are getting rarer every day.

javascript:(function() {const myInst="mcr.town";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})()

(@[email protected] I don't know if this would work for you because I know URLs are a bit different on Kbin side but maybe you can edit whatever needs editing to make it work there too?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Nice, I expect I can tweak it to my needs

[–] Serpent 1 points 2 years ago

Good luck to you. The London com seems to be ticking along.

[–] DickinsonSA 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I'm confused - if I'm logged into lemmy world, it's this not just another community that I can subscribe to? Why does the link take me to somewhere with no (obvious) subscribe?

Can you please explain? Tia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're not limited to communities on lemmy.world, but you need to visit them through lemmy.world in order to subscribe.

He's posted the actual remote link to the community, but here's a local one that should work for you.

(If you end up on a remote community like that there should usually be instructions on how to subscribe in the sidebar, also)

[–] DickinsonSA 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info, maybe early days for the software just yet but the link you sent just crashes jerboa.

I'm getting the picture though - early days for me too.

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