• lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Like others are saying it’s a big deal for a lot of past and current members so I understand why it’s getting so much traction, but yeah it does seem like the biggest threads are reddit. That said you can sort by hot or new and there is plenty of content that didnt come to reddit.

    For example [email protected] is run by the old /r/startrek team and other subreddits like daystrominstitute jumped on as well.

    • 2muchcaffeine4u@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      how do I follow the [email protected] community using an account created on another instance? Every time I click a link there, it takes me to that instance and tells me I am no longer logged in and have to make another account (which I did at first but I’m regretting now because I’m getting myself confused, I think).

      • lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Two ways. You can either copy the link I shared, click the search icon on the top right and search the community and that will give you a link you can subscribe to. You can also click communities up top, switch to all, and then search “star trek”

      • NotaCat@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’m too lazy to edit the url or type out the community name so I just search in “posts” instead of “communities” for the keyword (in this case “star trek”). This place is still small enough that the community I’m looking for is usually one of the top results.

      • piece@feddit.it
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        1 year ago

        It’s one of the biggest flaws of Lemmy so far. The link actually takes you to the instance where that community is. You made your account on another instance, so it’s like trying to log into Gmail with Yahoo.

        You have to search for the community link in your instance browser.

        Now I can’t get into more details cause I’m in a hurry, but If you didn’t already look into how federation works. I hope someone will reply with a more complete answer