The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?
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 (login not required) for each community URL on various instances to make it easier for newbies there to click your relative links and subscribe.
Thank you for this comment. That explains what I’ve seen when trying to do relative links to help people out.
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 😅
Well… Hopefully in the near future the UX for linking to communities can be improved, since right now the way things work makes it a pretty crappy user experience for anyone on an instance that hasn’t synced that community yet.
That’s true. Hoping things even out a bit after the initial rush to make new everything.
Lol, love that the DRG group isn’t called DRG but Rock 'n Stone. Very Karl of you.
How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?
If the communities haven’t synced to your instance yet, then you can prompt the instance to sync them by copying and pasting them into your instance’s search page. Unfortunately lemmy doesn’t do this automatically when you visit the URL, at least not yet.
Once the communities are synced, then you should be able to just click the links to visit them and subscribe from there.
I get no results? I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, sorry
Hm, that’s surprising. I didn’t expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g.
!news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I’m trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.
I’m really not sure, but it sounds like these could be issues related to feddit.uk? I suggest asking about this on a community there, or messaging an admin of that instance.
It can take a very long time sometimes for the community to show up. It is still searching in the background even though it says “No results”.
Running into this too, on desktop. It’s pretty confusing.
Go to your instance, click ok search and paste each one in there, then you can just access them like regular subreddits. If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.
That’s actually not true! If you format the links like this:
/c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com, like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they’re viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)That is awesome. Thank you for explaining the formatting!
Finally a deep rock galactic community?! Let’s gooo, rock and stone!
I started !gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone last week; that might interest you and others as well. :)
I’ve also joined your gamedev community! <3
You got yourself a new sub. Thank you for sharing!