I’ve already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances.

For science topics, mander.xyz has a lot of good ones set up, and !solarpunk@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net has been great!

edit: for new users - you can type ! to begin autofilling a community, even for ones on other instances, like I did for the solarpunk community above. It may take a few seconds for the autofill results to show up if you have a slow connection like me.

  • beached@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    How does one follow a community from another instance. for instance, beehaw’s gaming community I would like to follow, but when i am there, it makes be create a separate account.

    • Kamirose@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      In addition to what @Barbarian@lemmy.ml mentioned about changing the filter and searching, you can link it from your own instance like so:

      https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming@beehaw.org

      You can also grab the URL to any community or post on another instance, return to your own instance, and paste the URL into the search bar. If you’re the first person to ever search for that server it might not find anything at first, but it’ll fetch the data and probably work in a couple minutes.

    • Barbarian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      Go to Communities at the top, change the filter from “Local” to “All” and search for “Gaming”.

      If you’re the first one who wants to register to a community from this server (not the case here) it’s slightly more complex.

  • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    I quite like that Beecaw doesn’t federate the Tankies.

    I don’t really need a genocide denying group ofauthoritarians in my face first thing in the morning.

      • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        GenZedong and other communities shilling on lemmygrad. Some of these accounts post multiple pro-china, pro-russia, anti-usa articles per hour. I’m all for open discussion, but accounts like that are just propaganda pumpers

        To be clear, not everyone and everything on lemmygrad is a tankie shill. We need places that are safe for discussion of political ideologies. But I mention lemmygrad because that’s where the tankies seem to be flocking

      • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
        11·
        3 years ago

        You’re going to need a lot more of those to live up to the great Reactionary Counter-Revolutionaries so widely admired by tankies.

        • m532@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          Reactionary counterrevolutionaries like you? You probably work for the monarchists.

  • Beto@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    I launched lemmy.studio today, with the intent of hosting some music communities (music production, genres, different media, DAWs, etc.).

  • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Tip: If you’re thinking about making a community, google it first, like this:

    Let’s say I want to make a community for dogs. I’ll google “c/dogs lemmy” and some variations just to be sure.

    This has been working for me. If it doesn’t come up, it probably doesn’t exist

    • comfy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      The first rule of moretankie196 is you do not talk about the first rule.

      The second rule of moretankie196 is you DO NOT talk about the second rule.