Anyone want to critique my approach? I’m trying to find and join federated communities to engage with through jerboa app…

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

1)browse 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 in the fediverse.

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 posts 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 likely get better soon

  • The Real Geno SmithOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’m jealous! I haven’t been able to but, now with more knowledge, I’ll give it another go

    If it works for you, keep doing it!

    It would be awesome to just search “pancakes” in jerboa, and see the pancake communities in all the instances. Or even if I know [email protected] exists, to go search it outright from jerboa.

    We’re on a mission to learn!