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. :)

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.

And through it all, the Dude abides.

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

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 !bills@lemmy.ml?

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.

Great start. I hope to see more former redditors join the federation!

If anyone cares, I joined lemmy through sh.itjust.works instance on lemmy, downloaded jerboa for lemmy app, sand in searching "NFL" and all the teams to try and build a community

Wait for Easter...

Just kidding, Skøl! LFG!

FTP!

With any luck, Green Bay goes the way of the Pats. First year after Brady was hilarious, and no one is afraid of them any more

Scarre-bear? lol. Welcome!

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

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/whatever@lemmy.ml"
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/technology@beehaw.org

back and forth, forever...

Thanks for the help! For others reading along, I learned a good way to find communities is:

Edit: I posted for help at the sh.itjust.works main community, you may want to follow along there. https://sh.itjust.works/post/42200

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

1)go 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.

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 post 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 like get better soon

(Stop reading, below here is an approach I was trying after reading up on the fediverse, but it wasn't working for me. Saved for posterity)

(Seriously, this didn't work)

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1)go 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.

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 post 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 like get better soon

1. go to http://browse.feddit.de

2. search for communities by title ("NFL", "broncos", "NFCN_meme_war")

3. click the copy icon for a community (it copies the instance and community name in the right format, like, "https://lemmy.ml/c/nfl" or "https://lemmy.world/c/bills")

4. go to your fediverse app (for me it's jerboa, you might have another) or log into your fediverse instance in a browser (you might already have an account at a place like http://www.beehaw.org)

5. search for a community, and paste the data you copied in step 3, above.

I hope this works!

(Edit... It's not quite working, I find communities at browse.feddit.de, but copy/search/paste isn't getting it done)

Awesome, dude, thanks for being a driver for change.

I've subbed to both, I'll go try and interact a bit on your preferred community to get some statistics up for fellow Lemmy travelers!

Thanks for coming this list! Hopefully we continue to engage with the thread so newbs find it easily.

I'll "favorite" it, or whatever it's called here ...

Brock took the NFL by storm. He's already the most relevant "Mr. Irrelevant" in history, even if he doesn't play another snap.

Which, of course, he will. Pretty amazing 7th round find, to save 9er bacon with the lackluster performance of Lance so far. The whole QB situation there is an amazing story!

Search for !seahawks@lemmy.ml

There's (not yet) dozens of us!

I'm new here, and I'm finding it's easier to join communities not on my hosted instance if links to the community are formatted like this:

!jaguars@lemmy.ml - Jacksonville Jaguars

Instead of like this:

Jacksonville Jaguars\

I need to log in to a mobile browser to my instance (https://sh.itjust.works), then search with the !jaguars@lemmy.ml string, then subscribe through the sidebar... Just searching with team names is hit and miss, and I can't seem to ever find anything by url. And going right to the url only lets you join if you're logged into that instance...

Are other people finding it less than intuitive to find and join communities?

!seahawks@lemmy.ml

https://philly.page/c/eagles

!eagles@philly.page

Great start. I hope to see more former redditors join the federation!

If anyone cares, I joined lemmy through sh.itjust.works instance on lemmy, downloaded jerboa for lemmy app, sand in searching "NFL" and all the teams to try and build a community.

When I click to see your broncos community, I'm taken to the lemmy.ml instance. I wonder if I'm doing things wrong, because I thought federation meant I could log in at sh.itjust.works, and I could see and interact with all the federated communities?