I’ve been on lemmy.ml for a while but have not figured out how to join other instances of lemmy (like subreddits?). The couple of other groups ask for a login but my current login doesn’t work. I don’t know how to proceed or where to look for a guide. Thanks for any assistance.

  • HSL
    6•1 year ago

    Per rule #3, we don’t offer support in this community - please check the sidebar for a list of communities that can help you out with this question.

  • Baron Von J
    3•1 year ago

    If you go to https://lemmy.ml/communities then click All you will see communities from all federated instances. Communities from other instances will have @<instance> displayed. If you don’t see one in specific you can search for !<community>@<instance> (you may have to wait a minute and search a second time if it’s the first time anyone has searched for that community).

    As far as browsing those other communities, that will be https://lemmy.ml/c/<community>@<instance>. For example https://lemmy.ml/c/guitars@lemmy.world

    • CommunityLinkFixerBotBEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !guitars@lemmy.world

  • Meow.tar.gz
    2•1 year ago

    In Lemmy, subreddits are known as communities. You join a community by its name, for example !mycommunity@example. Do a search for that community, click on the search result, and you’ll be given an option to subscribe. Note that the search might come up as 0 results even though you got the community name right. It’s just taking longer to find the community.

  • col
    1•1 year ago

    to subscribe to communities in other instances, search for them, go to community, look in the sidebar and hit subscribe. For example to subscribe to !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world click that link, look in the sidebar, hit the subscribe button.