Trying a switch to tal@lemmy.today, at least for a while, due to recent kbin.social stability problems and to help spread load.
More-generally, if you see something of this form:
community@instance.name
Where the community above is:
pixelart@lemmyloves.art
You can just plonk that into the search field in kbin, and it’ll bring up a page where you can subscribe to it.
You can also link directly to the search – and doing so apparently also works on lemmy servers, since the URL format is the same:
[Search link](/search?q=pixelart%40lemmyloves.art)
Yields:
Honestly, r/ducks was one of my favourite subs. If not my favourite.
Found the fox.
It’s available for me on kbin.social as of this writing, and I subscribed.
As far as I can tell, what one needs to do on kbin is search for communityname@instance. I don’t think that “!” goes in the search string.
But that’s already run by now.
For people on kbin.social, you should be able to see it at:
https://kbin.social/m/battlestations@lemmy.world
If you’re on another kbin instance, do the above search. I’m still a little fuzzy about the right syntax in a comment to produce a link to perform such an initial search in a cross-lemmy/kbin, cross-instance fashion. I think that it should be:
!@battlestations@lemmy.world
Giving the following:
That generated link does work for me on kbin.social, but I could be wrong about it working elsewhere.
I really wish that this particular issue would be made clear, as it’s important for community discoverability.
EDIT: Nope, generated link does not work on lemmy.world, so doesn’t work on lemmy, at least.
EDIT2: On fedia.io, another kbin instance, the link also doesn’t work, so someone on the instance may need to have already subscribed for the link to be auto-generated. The ability to have a link format that directs to one’s local instance in a way that works on all lemmy and kbin instances, regardless of whether anyone has subscribed, would be really nice.
EDIT3: Trying:
[battlestations@lemmy.world](/search?q=battlestations%40lemmy.world)
Yields
Which works to generate a search on kbin.social.
It also appears to work on fedia.io, so this is probably the right way to do a link, at least for kbin users.
EDIT4: It also appears to work for lemmy instances! This should probably be the new syntax used on newcommunities@lemmy.world to link to a community!
There’s , though it hasn’t seen a lot of traffic.
If you just want a feed of the comics submitted to /r/polandball, lemmit.online runs a bot that will create a community on that instance and automatically mirror the posts on a subreddit. If you go to and issue a request (post title consisting of “/r/polandball”), it’ll create it and you can subscribe to that.
It won’t mirror comments, though, which may or may not matter for you.
EDIT: @count_duckula also
Kbin too. But, honestly, it’s not the fault of the memers. One of the things that both Lemmy and kbin are gonna need is a reasonable way to recommend starting content.
Showing all is okay when there’s virtually nothing on the Threadiverse, but it’s a firehose weighted towards high-traffic communities as the Threadiverse activity ramps up.
Maybe have an option to show, instead of just “all” or “subscribed”, “recommended”.
Ideally it’d be nice to try to recommend based on existing subscriptions or viewed content, but short of that, one approach might be to only show a percentage of posts on high-traffic communities, and as traffic rises, reduce that percentage. So you see a few posts from high-traffic communities, but not all of them. That’d help with discovery of lower-traffic communities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingus
Pingus is an open-source Lemmings clone that was made a while back, if anyone hasn’t played Lemmings and wants to try a free Lemmings-style game.
not really problems with big ducks
Yeah, but my point is, you get a lot of stuff like women complaining about how their boyfriend is a jerk, as he just cheated on them, and looking for a shoulder to cry on. Fair enough, there are people who want that, and there’s legitimately a demand for that. But then you’ve got the combination of women who are upset with various men for various situations in their life complaining about men and Reddit routing huge numbers of new users – including men – into the subreddit and it’s not a very happy mix for either half of the equation.
Honestly, I’m not really enthralled with politics subreddits being the first place to send new users either. It kind of results in a lot of yelling and angry people, because you’ve got unhappy people who have conflicting views being shoveled in a pile together.
I’d rather that Reddit had let people just find their own way to subreddits where people maybe had sharply-conflicting views, but as an initial place to send people, maybe landscape photos or cooking or stuff that doesn’t tend to lead to conflict between groups of users.
I remember reading some article arguing that outrage tends to tremendously boost engagement, and that that’s one reason that media – both social and traditional – tends to encourage it. I think that there’s something to that. I used to read a magazine aimed at Macintosh users. The last page of every issue had an article written by a columnist named John C. Dvorak who would write an article that tended to be about how Apple didn’t know what it was doing and how Microsoft had the right idea. This was at a time when Apple was risking maybe going out of business and a lot of Mac users were really worried about the future of the platform. Invariably, the letters section of each issue was full of letters from outraged readers saying that Dvorak didn’t know what he was talking about in the article in the previous issue. Years later, I remember reading something by Dvorak talking about how he did that intentionally, to get people worked up. It did make me wonder how long that that had been a convention in journalism.
I do not myself like /r/TwoXChromosomes, and I don’t think that it was a great idea to make it a default sub on Reddit back when that happened – IIRC the rationale was to try to improve Reddit’s appeal to women. But it’s…kind of a bitter, angry place, and I don’t think that that makes for a very good default experience for new users.
However, I certainly think that people who want that environment should have access to it. I mean, people need to vent about stuff. So, hey, good to have it as an option for people.
Republican candidate