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Still entirely lost, I know of a community I'd like to join but on a different server and it doesn't show up in search to join it.
But having ukcasual to read makes me want to persevere.
Reddit is dead to me, long live lemmy!
If you have the full community name (like this place is
[!ukcasual@lemmy.world](/c/ukcasual@lemmy.world)) it should come through on search, though it might take a while. Especially if it's a community on a heavily loaded server like lemmy.ml, you may want to try a couple of times, waiting a minute or two in between, so the search gets a chance to resolve.It's https://lemmy.world/c/gunners I am signed up to the feddit.uk server, I don't understand why UKcasual on the same server works but that one doesn't.
I can view it on browser but the jarboa app can't seem to find it, and I can't seem to log in on the lemmy.world site to subscribe because it won't recognise my details from feddit.uk.
I'm so confused.
Easy mistake.
Don't try to log into lemmy.world - you don't have an account there. You have an account at feddit.uk, so log into that and then search for the community you want through the feddit.uk search. Use the search term "!gunners@lemmy.world" if you're struggling.
Basically, you'll only ever sign into feddit.uk, but that can reach out to other communities(subreddits) on other instances.
That makes sense thanks all sorted.
It can be quite difficult to find communities especially using the app unless you see a post in all and can just click through.
If you open up your browser, open feddit.uk, click the search icon and type !https://lemmy.world/c/gunners I think that should work. You have to search from your 'home server' (the site you signed up on) so you remain logged in. It'll give you a link, and when you open it you can hit subscribe that way. Much easier to just click the sub name from a post in 'all' tho.
That makes sense thanks all sorted.
Try typing it as !gunners@lemmy.world into the search bar of feddit.uk on your mobile browser and subscribe via the sidebar?
I think there is a lot of usability work still to be done. You can only sign in to your instance with your credentials, not at any other. Other instances should preferably give you a button to view the post you're currently looking at in your own instance. So click the button, type in the address of your instance, and it redirects you to your own instance with the post you were viewing already open. Right now you have to copy the address of the post you were viewing and paste it into your own instances search field, or get to the post in some other way on your own instance.
This is particularly problematic when a post links to another post using a full URL to the post. If you click that, you get moved to the original instance that this post is on, which may not be the instance you yourself are on.
This sounds more confusing than I believe it is. If you have an account on beehaw.org, you can only interact with other posts if you're currently viewing that post on beehaw.org. If you're not on beehaw.org, you have to find the post you want to interact with on beehaw.org first before you can interact with it.
I'm trying to come up with an analogy. Like... uh...
Imagine you're borrowing a book from a library. This library also has the possibility of borrowing books from other libraries if they don't have it. But once you've borrowed it, you can't just go back to any library and hand in the book there. You have to hand it in to the library you yourself have borrowed it from, which can then send it back to the library they borrowed it from. You always have to go through your own local library because the other libraries might not know who you are.
Maybe that's stretching it a bit. I'm definitely all ears for better analogies.
@Rain3h Dunno waht the Jarboa app is.
But log in to the feddit.uk server, search for @gunners in the search, and if nothing is broken with federation it should show up.
The cevat is that sometimes at the moment servers are turning on DDOS protection, and that breaks the federation. Hopefully they eventually can turn that off and restore federation to it's full working state. lemmy world seems to be connecting to fedia.io at the moment at least.
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