In the meantime we can try to be helpful when possible!

iphone@lemmy.ml

And if your instance needs to search for the full url still: https://lemmy.ml/c/iphone

Yeah, but we can help out in the meantime!

iphone@lemmy.ml

And if you need the full url for your instance’s search: https://lemmy.ml/c/iphone

I think most people would agree with the sentiment, but it’s probably a side effect of people being a bit lost.

If you can’t find the community or discussion where you could contribute more niche information, having the general reddit exodus topic at least lets you participate.

And I think that is the common thread of optimism. Even with the confusion and the jank, it still feels good to be somewhere welcoming and new.

Yeah I’m right there with you. I probably made about 5 accounts not understanding why I couldn’t interact whenever I clicked certain links.

So now I’m trying to help others figure it out when I see a fellow lost redditor!

How federalization works can be a bit confusing. For me the biggest hurdle to get over was how the different instances - lemmy.ml and lemmy.world - are separate websites. They can connect and interact with each other because they’re federalized, but your account is only on lemmy.world.

Now for some magic!

Relative links for communities (subreddits) can work across instances:

• eg: [/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)
• becomes: /c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

As long as your instance knows the community exists the links should work.

I think just that is the confusing bit! Instances translate into separate reddits - as in completely different websites. Instance admins have as much power as reddit admins within the instance.

Communities are like subreddits, the main subdivision of an instance.

Where it gets confusing is you can subscribe to “subreddits” (read: communities) on other “reddit websites” (read: instances). It’s pretty cool but can take a second to wrap your head around!

The next layer of confusion comes from how everything also interacts with things like Mastodon, Kbin, Peertube, and any other ActivityPub project.

I would give them a little benefit of the doubt. There were probably less than 50 Jerboa users last week and it was a slow hobby project.

With all this renewed interest there has already been a lot of fast progress and a massive update is coming out soon (I think). There’s a community for the app though if you want to see how development is going!

Jerboa@lemmy.ml

That sounds like a pretty novel way to go about it!

I wonder how hard it would be to implement in practice?

There are a ton of twitter bots that do exactly this already. I’ve seen a few mastodon bots do the same so I imagine it’s possible with lemmy as well.

At worst, you could just set it up on mastodon and then have them automatically post to lemmy.

If Yishan is on twitter I hope he responds too

That works! You can also do relative links like this: [text](/c/community@instance)

/c/megaten@lemmy.ml

Link it here!

I think it’s a little confusing for everyone right now. I’ll try to explain the easy bits at least.

You can do relative links for communities like this: [text](/c/community@instance)

• Chat@beehaw.org
• asklemmy@lemmy.ml

But these will only work if your instance has already discovered the communities. I think that’s where a lot of the confusion behind all of this first becomes an issue. Some links only work if your instance already “knows” it exists.

To get your or any instance to learn about a specific community, you first have to search for it. The most reliable way to do it is to just put the full url of the community into the search box.

And then wait. It sometimes takes a moment to actually find the community. Once it’s found the rest should work.

For comments, posts, and threads it’s different. Since those will have different unique identifiers on a per instance basis, my understanding is that it’s much more complicated for relative links to work. I haven’t seen a simple solution yet, unfortunately.

If you’re interested in reading more thoughts and comments, there was a massive thread on the same subject the other day:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/5137?scrollToComments=true

The hard part is that while you can have relative links to communities (/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) it doesn’t work for individual posts, threads, or comments.

I assume it’s a difficult problem because those would have different ids in different instances?

Need to get a lemmy static going for the new tier!

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we already have that with /c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml!

It feels oddly nostalgic. I think it reminds me of the fun I used to have when I first joined reddit.

Rather than just mindlessly scrolling with a couple “hehs” or a blowing air out my nose slightly faster than normal.

I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.