Hi all, I’m new here. On Reddit there is the front page where I can find popular posts even in obscurely named subreddits like “leopardsatemyface” or “okbuddycinephile” that I could never find by actively searching for it.
How do you discover content on Lemmy that is not in your local instance?
I even tried subscribing to “leopardsatemyface” from Lemmy.world, but my app doesn’t even show it in the search results even when actively looking for it. 🤨
Please help 🙈
Also if you don’t mind another stupid question, when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as “pending” and only a few minutes later as “joined” - why? What is it waiting for?
when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as “pending” and only a few minutes later as “joined” - why? What is it waiting for?
It’s synchronizing across servers. First it needs to ensure the remote server has your user object, then it tells the remote server to mark your user as subscribed to that community. And these aren’t immediate API calls, they’re queued up. Sometimes the message queue between servers has some other messages before yours so it may take longer than expected.
Thanks! I guess setting up a functional federated network is far from trivial. Reading about ActivityPub right now.
Which app are you using? When I got started I just looked at the „All“ feed in voyager and then subscribed to communities that I liked. There are also communities to promote communities like /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
You are right, I somehow completely missed that! I have an “all” in my left side bar (my client is called Jerboa)
Better link: !newcommunities@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/communities
You can set the filter from “Local” to “All” and you’ll find a direct community search on the side.
What app are you using? I know on the website version you can just select ‘All’ on the interface at the top where it says Subscribed/Local/All.
Yes you are right, it is there, I just didn’t see it! 😂🙈 I’m using Jerboa btw.
