[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[Some text here](community@instance.here)

Tap the 'more' skinny hamburger menu just ~~above~~ below this message to 'view source' of the below:

blah blah blah links to asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Actually..better, here is one for an instance that is neither yours or the one you posted into:

blay harg vlar

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submitted 1 year ago by boomboxnation@beehaw.org to c/meta@lemmy.ml

(copy+pasted from an attempted) cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/659384

From 3 other lemmy.ml federated lemmings I cannot fully subscribe to lemmy.ml communities. They all just stay in 'Subscription Pending'. It was pointed out that I would still get updates from these communities, and I decided to roll with it. BUT the thing is… you can't cross-post using the lemmy built in if not fully subscribed.

How long until this might be alleviated? Has lemmy.ml considered asking some communities to move to a less loaded lemmy? Seemingly every floss project seems to have homed here, and the subscription pending thing is getting problematic.

Thanks for all the hard work. I just want to know if it's known/being addressed.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Subscriptions are actually completing now. Takes a minute and manual intervention. But they are going to 'Joined'.

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submitted 1 year ago by boomboxnation@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

From 3 other lemmy.ml federated lemmings I cannot fully subscribe to lemmy.ml communities. They all just stay in 'Subscription Pending'. It was pointed out that I would still get updates from these communities, and I decided to roll with it. BUT the thing is… you can't cross-post using the lemmy built in if not fully subscribed.

How long until this might be alleviated? Has lemmy.ml considered asking some communities to move to a less loaded lemmy? Seemingly every floss project seems to have homed here, and the subscription pending thing is getting problematic.

Thanks for all the hard work. I just want to know if it's known/being addressed.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This comment needs to be upvoted to the top.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's quite simple. Create a pocket account at https://getpocket.com

Add some articles or Web Serial chapters to your pocket (easier with the Save to Pocket extension)

Add the Pocket account to your Kobo.

Sync your kobo.

It's such an under advertised feature of the Kobo devices.

Better but personally I don't like creating accounts on the kobo, would rather do on the desktop: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017763753-Use-the-Pocket-App-with-your-Kobo-eReader

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
-Vimium (install and hit the letter 'f' key. You will immediately understand the appeal if you are a keyboard jockey)
-A Userscript handler (Violentmonkey)
-Dark Reader
-Save to Pocket (I have a Kobo ereader, this extension is a must for reading on the go)
-Bitwarden
-Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.

I love reading the responses to this question.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try searching here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities Keep in mind this lemmy is no longer federated with lemmy.ml or lemmy.world You may need a backup/second home lemmy to subscribe to them.

Keep in mind both those instances are fairly overloaded. I believe lemmy.ml is actively telling people to go elsewhere and subscribe from there.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I am in the same boat. Installing...Dog help me.

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I am trying to find an additional home base lemmy that I jive with that is a bit smaller and less likely to get crushed. While exploring I have found disparities in which foreign communities I can search for and find despite all being in the federated instance list. Most of the time I can’t find the community I know exists, or I do find and the User count is so wildly off that I question if I have found the correct one(I have).

It seems to me that the communities@foreignInstance are irregularly/periodically updated into a local cache. If I am correct can Lemmy servers at least expose ‘Last Update time’, ‘Next Update time’ and just general mean time between updates?

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm having trouble finding communities in lemmy.ml here (is one of the unblocked instances). I can find them from another lemmy instance, just not here. How often are the communities updated? I'm hoping to make beehaw my 'home' instance.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

In response to your postscript: You can search here for other communities: https://browse.feddit.de and there may be other search, please let me know if you find them. That one is a bit slow to update. I used that to determine that there was no community yet for a topic. So I tried to get a feel for which lemmy might be best for it and created it there. The one I created was Trader Joe's Unofficial You can see I even added a note in the description about it being my first and trying to add a better/more mod.

TL;DR See if your community interest already exists anywhere, and if not, go create it!

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago

Wait...the comment seems to indicate that the primary mod did not want to go dark, and an inactive mod came in and made it go dark. I understand being upset...but this does not seem like anything a Reddit admin would do?

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So far so good. This is actually my first comment.

I had a hard time wrapping my head around how the federation worked. But figured out I just search here in communities only with my keywords. If I don't get a result here and https://browse.feddit.de then it means no community has yet been created anywhere.

I decided to make Beehaw my 'home' server after discovering it actually had an 'interview' that I jived with and a moderated/structured set of communities. As my first deeper 'test' of lemmy I have created my first community at lemmy.world since it seemed like the place for my random community about a grocery store chain: !traderjoes@lemmy.world

If I was making a specific tech/software related community I likely would have chosen lemmy.ml as that's where many other tech/software related projects have landed so far. But lemmy.world seemed the better choice for random.

Does this seem relatively close to be how I should handle things in the lemmyverse?

Edit: It would be nice if there was a user setting to open external links in new tabs.

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