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Self promoting a Futurama community https://lemmy.world/c/futurama
(Hypnotoad compels you to join)
!thescarydoor@kbin.social is a Futurama subreddit that I am shamelessly self-promoting. I hope that's okay.
Edit: I don't know how to link it properly, I guess.
Subscribed! For people on the lemmy side, just searching for https://kbin.social/m/thescarydoor should have it come up.
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To make a system agnostic link, you do it [like this](/c/thescarydoor@kbin.social) for Lemmy. Not sure if kbin has javascript URL rewriting, not tried it. Those URLs also don't work in Jerboa atm. Gonna take a bit before all the papercuts get solved.
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I made https://lemmy.world/c/guitars and you'll NEVER guess what we talk about.
Hey Art- how's that gig at kruger industral smoothing? Lol. Anyway I just got here from reddit and the first thing I was looking for was the equivalent of /r/guitars. Is your server federated with lemmy.ml? I can't seem to subscribe...
Edit - i figured it out! Someone has to search for your link in their instances search at least once. I guess that was me! Kinda fun being on the first wave of reddit refugees.
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Here's some of the communities on lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. They're pretty small and quiet at the moment, but maybe they'll grow a little over time:
!dev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For software development
!gamedev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For game development
!compile@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For compiler development
!games@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For video games
!rns@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Deep Rock Galactic
!fortnight@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Fortnight
!twitch@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For twitch.tv
!tech@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For general tech stuff
!news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For world news
thanks for making these relative links, so they can work across instances, but... they don't actually work on a given instance until that community is first accessed there through search.
eg, your dev community worked for me (here on lemmy.ml) because someone else here already accessed it, but your news one was 404 until after I searched for https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/c/news on lemmy.ml to make it learn about it.
despite the amazing work over the last years there is still lots more to be improved :)
(i just accepted an invitation to become an admin here to help the two main devs be able to spend more time developing and less time moderating...)
for now, if you want to promote your instances communities to users on other big instances like lemmy.ml, i recommend searching for each community URL on various instances (login is not required for this) to make it easier for newbies there to click your relative links and subscribe.
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Hah, that's what...four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄
Hah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄
No need to compete! I'm self-hosting my own instance in any case, so I thought I might as well make communities for things I'm interested in. I've also subbed to every other gamedev community I've come across so far...
It would be really neat if there were a lemmy feature to easily co-promote related communities, maybe even give users an easy way to see them all in one feed.
Oh absolutely, I've got so many duplicates in my sub list and kinda love that it doesn't matter!
Seen some talk around of a potential feature where users can group related communities together for viewing purposes, but I expect it'll be a while away if it ever happens. In the meantime there's nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume), but that would rely on every mod of a similar place being as un-power-mad as yourself and reciproacting 😅
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Lol, love that the DRG group isn't called DRG but Rock 'n Stone. Very Karl of you.
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I just started https://sh.itjust.works/c/vtubers. I'm part of a small community of VTubers, and hoping to meet more people and make friends through Lemmy as well.
mander.xyz has a ton of cool science instances!
Something I haven't been able to wrap my head around, do I need a username on each instance for federated instances? If not, how does one participate in communities in other instances? I'm with lemmy.ml, but if I want to interact with a post on beehaw, how do I do that?
I think it works like this: each account belongs to an instance which is your home instance. You can go to other instances to interact with their communities, but your profile (where your history is) is on your home instance. The only difference I’ve notice is that, posting on your home instance then your post is just username, but on away instances it’s username@homeinstance. Otherwise it seems to work the exact same as interacting with communities on your home instance. But I’ve only just signed up so I am making guessing!
The short answer is no, you dont.
Think of this like email, you sign up to a mail provider (gmail, yahoo, fastmail, etc) or even if you're feeling up to it run you own email server with you own domain. You can then use that account to send emails to anyone regardless of which provider they picked and anyone can send you email too.
Lemmy (and ActivityPub, the underlying protocol) works the same. ActivityPub under the hood even uses the same concept of an inbox and outbox. You pick your provider and you can comment, post, etc. to anywhere regardless of which instance the other users or community is on.
If you see a post on another instance (e.g. Beehaw) you can just comment in the webui or app and it'll just work.
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You only need one username for each group of federated servers/instances. Click Communities at the top, then click All under List of communities. that should list all communities known to lemmy.ml. If a community is not known, you would need to search for it (eg. Technology@beehaw.org).
!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz looks interesting.
!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one
map enthusiasts looks very cool.
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There are a lot of communities to discover on kbin.social's magazines , I have also made my own community for Buddhism, although I'm not sure how many people here are really interested in that.
slrpnk.net has some fantastic budding communities about living life more ecologically. Also some nice tech stuff -- do give it a look!
I'm focusing my instance on some niche topics that I find interesting, here's what we've got so far.
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
Long Furbies → https://possumpat.io/c/longfurbies
Possums! → https://possumpat.io/c/possums
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Just chipping in to promote my own lemmy instance: I created !baseball@fanaticus.social and communities for the other 30 MLB teams to replace the subreddits we left behind.
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Self promoting https://midwest.social/c/synths (like /r/synthesizers) and the hubby's community https://midwest.social/c/guitars (like /r/guitar) for anyone interested in those.
While we're on the topic of community promotion, might as well plug my shadowrun community.
My home instance seems to have a lot of techy people, so we also got UNIX systems, Networking and AI Images communities too.
might as well plug my shadowrun community.
Oh, nice! Joined :)
Join us on feddit.de to chat about boardgames (in english)
I haven't found a good pro wrestling community, so I figured I'd try and start something. No idea what I'm doing but we'll get there. Link for anyone interested: https://midwest.social/c/wrestling
Posted this elsewhere, but as people flood in maybe some community promotion isn't a bad thing...
I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants to check them out:
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
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I created a few shitposting communities that I really miss from reddit.
!rustjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - a place dedicated to making fun of rust programming language (actually mainly its competitors)
!vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny flags
!yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Europe and the EU in a humorous fashion
!truestl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Elder Scrolls shitposting
!femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - femboy memes
!data_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny graphs
!okbuddybaka@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - stupid anime memes
There isn't anything going on there at the moment, but I hope in time they can prosper and produce some cool content :)
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we're just getting started so you've either been waiting your whole life for this instance, or you're glad it's on someone else's rack.
PopHeads is for, well pop music-heads. and i've no clue how to link it so it works for everyone. that's a regular web link, apparently !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech will work better for some.
the instance also just tipped up a meme community and plans to build out artist communities as well. the first is for taylor swift, so yeah, our mod buttons say 'hater' on them.
People knock lemmygrad.ml but I think it's the best site for people who were nauseated by r/worldnews 🤷
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