Weird_With_A_Beard

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sadly... yes. I'm just not finding the community here that I built up there over 11 years. I know, I know, give this 11 years and we'll get there, too... but it's still over there.

I did the whole "delete all comments and posts and replace with the API reasoning text" thing, for my main and my few alts. BUt I find I still am heading over there on browser through old.reddit and lurking.

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

if it is a link in your feed, hopefully the app handles this. the web browser interface for sh.itjust.works handles the URL properly to let you see the thread while remaining here, and comment like a damn fool!

the manual way:

  1. take "https://lemmy.ml/c/whatever" if that is the link someone provided in a post...
  2. navigate to "https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]"
  3. you'll notice that you're still "here" on sh.it, but seeing what is hosted "there" on lemmy.ml.

for example:

click https://beehaw.org/c/technology.

now click https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

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

back and forth, forever...

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

Definitely... subs open up tomorrow, then go private again... and again...

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

well, if you want to feed the current drama and reach those folks, you can always follow these instructions to delete your existing comments and posts, and replace them with a description on how to do the same:

https://github.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

for special children like me, how do we use such a thing? I'm guessing a browser plugin of some sort?

Thanks for taking the effort to make this place feel like our old, abusive, but still comfortable, home. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scarre-bear? lol. Welcome!

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

I'm jealous! I haven't been able to but, now with more knowledge, I'll give it another go

If it works for you, keep doing it!

It would be awesome to just search "pancakes" in jerboa, and see the pancake communities in all the instances. Or even if I know [email protected] exists, to go search it outright from jerboa.

We're on a mission to learn!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if this was configurable. Or maybe someone enterprising can write a script to do some searching now, while our usage is low, and the number of external communities is also low.

I know as things start to get really high usage, and the number of Lemmy instances grows, and communities per instance grow, that it might be untenable. But at least for this early onboarding process where we expect a lot of new users, it would be cool to give them a soft landing experience

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And through it all, the Dude abides.

Thanks for hosting, thanks for the expertise, thanks for the response time!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Appreciate it! So I search on feddit.de, then find, say, https://lemmy.ml/c/bills.

I then log in to https://sh.itjust.works, and search for [email protected]?

I'm off to try...

Edit: (for those reading along) it works fine! I am not finding a few communities that are listed on feddit.de, but it might be that those are new (less than 2 hours). Later they were located fine.

 

Anyone want to critique my approach? I'm trying to find and join federated communities to engage with through jerboa app...

For others reading along, I learned a good way to find communities is:

1)browse to http://browse.feddit.de and search for communities by title (“NFL”, “broncos”, “NFCN_meme_war”). This is to make sure you’re seeing if your desired community exists somewhere in the fediverse.

2)log into your account at a place like http://www.beehaw.org (for me it is http://sh.itjust.works)

3)search by the title again (not the url that feddit.de let’s you copy… Don’t know why)

4)click the link to the community, it opens in your browser

5)click the sidebar link, click subscribe

6)now you can log into your app (for me it’s jerboa for Lemmy) and see posts from those communities in your subscribed feed!

This seems arduous, and it is, but it’s just because I’ve been reading that search for communities in jerboa isn’t functional yet, because we’re all so new! It’ll likely get better soon

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