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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:


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let's spread the love so other instances/communities can be discovered easier

here are a few I recommend:

!retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

!steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

!hockey@lemmy.ca

!moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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[โ€“] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

are you on desktop or an app?

I know on desktop you should be able to log into sh.itjust.works, then click on the Communities tab and there will be a search box

if you paste !cats@midwest.social into the search box and hit search it will attempt to federate that community onto sh.itjust.works

it can take a minute to appear but the search result should eventually switch from no results to showing the 'cats' community and you can then view/subscribe right there from your home instance

same applies to any remote community, you need to search for the !community_name@instance_name from your home instances search box

Thanks! I'm on desktop and was successfully finding communities in search, just unable to join them - maybe it's finicky right now. I was finally able to join !main@midwest.social and !gaming@midwest.social under this account, but wasn't able to earlier. Opening any links (including from search) to community sites under the midwest.social instance would sign me out.