People need to realize you can use alternatives
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.
Do you know how the communities work? So if a community is created on a server it only exists there, right? So if a server decides to shut down the whole community goes down with it? That would kinda suck and then it actually makes sense to only join one server and support it instead to make its survival more likely
I believed peered servers cache the content of their peers. So if the origin server goes dark, existing content can still be viewed while it's still in cache
I'm not sure if this feature exists, but community replication could be useful for resilience.
Thanks, this clears things up !
Yeah that bit makes sense. It is just trying to figure out how I access content using my account without relying on trending all. I haven’t had much luck with the category searching on all yet.
Multiple servers, all sharing data with one another. Lemmy.ml is just one of them.
I tried subscribing to a specific feddit.de community using Jerboa and I haven't been able to yet. Not sure whether I'm misunderstanding something or whether that's not possible.
Jerboa doesn't let you create an account. Just do that step on the web first.
I joined lemmy.world and it took 2 minutes.
I have an account and I'm logged in. I'm posting this from Jerboa. But it's not a feddit.de account. Maybe I'm missing something.
Jerboa search only finds communities that at least 1 person on your instance subscribed to, to find new communities from other instances easily I like to use https://browse.feddit.de/
Then when you find a community, go to the web version of your instance (don't worry it's (mostly) mobile friendly) and type !name@instan.ce (don't forget the !) Then you can subscribe there. Close and reopen Jerboa and your new community will show up in the list. The Jerboa devs are working on fixing this.
Thanks for the detailed instructions!
Also started lemming on lemmy.world! Seems quite stable and getting popular