The only thing I found was what appeared to be a pretty dead community that redirects you to a different website that won't let me sign up since you need admin approval. Trying to move on from reddit.
The only thing I found was what appeared to be a pretty dead community that redirects you to a different website that won't let me sign up since you need admin approval. Trying to move on from reddit.
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IWW4@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 131d
This is the most active one I have found:
https://piefed.social/c/television
ponypuncher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 131d
Yeah that was the one I tried to join but it said I couldn't because only admins can create accounts. Unless I just don't know what I am doing, which is totally plausible seeing as how I just joined Lemmy this morning.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 131d
Try the bang link instead. !television@piefed.social
You should be taken to the community but remain on .world and then you can subscribe to it.
ponypuncher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 131d
Oh Brilliant! Thank you for you patience! That seems to have worked. So if I add a "!" in the future that should work?
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 131d
!community_name@instance.domain
Also for users it is
@user@instance.domain
otter@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 131d
You should also be able to use the search bar
In short, to use communities created on other instances, you will go to
lemmy.world/c/COMMUNITY@INSTANCESo to access the Canada community that's located on lemmy.ca, you go to lemmy.world/c/canada@lemmy.ca
The exclamation mark thing is a common link format that tells your app or the Lemmy websites that you are linking to a community somewhere. Using the search bar within lemmy.world should also do the same thing
This visual guide might help
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
ponypuncher@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 131d
This is helpful. Thank you! It will make sense eventually but it's very frustrating whenever I encounter something new and I can't intuitively figure it out my own but that's the price for it not being reddit, I imagine.
otter@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 131d
There's a small learning process, but ultimately it isn't that different. I think part of the difficulty is that the lack of a nice onboarding, which is what these guide pages are intended for
I'd also recommend these pages
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/mobile-apps
khannie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
Welcome to Lemmy!
You'll get past the hurdles pretty quickly. It's a little confusing at first.
yessikg@fedia.io · 1 pts · 131d
You should be able to join/subscribe to it but you need to do it from your instance... so search for !television@piefed.social in the lemmy.world search
Cherry@piefed.social · 1 pts · 131d
It is very quiet. I’d like to see more in there.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 131d
Here's a handy website to browse instances and communities
https://lemmyverse.net/