What are you entering in the search bar?

Either paste the full URL (https://reddthat.com/c/rts) or write !rts@reddthat.com. You might need to click the next & prev buttons a couple of times for it to show up, especially for smaller communities.

Posts and comments have yet to be implemented in this way, but instance-agnostic links already work for communities. Simply typing !memes@lemmy.ml or !bicycles@lemmy.ca or whatever will give you a link which redirects users to that page on their instance. Your instance might have to be running the latest Lemmy version, though.

You can copy and paste links to a post on other instances in the search bar to find them on your instance.

Yeah this is occurring for everyone, I imagine it’s one in a long list of things the devs have on their plate already.

Wow, thank you for this detailed comment, it’s a really fun read for someone who wasn’t around at the time. The history of the internet has always been a fascinating subject for me, and this is probably the most honest and down-to-earth summary of Usenet and that subset of internet culture that I’ve read so far.

You’ve made me feel nostalgia for something I’ve never directly experienced, that’s the mark of an interesting story, not of the ramblings of a misty-eyed old fart!

I’d assume that using an instance hosted closer to you is probably better than using an instance hosted on the other side of the world, but I think the main priority right now would be trying to not overload any particular server. Lemmy is likely to see a steady influx of users as reddit’s API fiasco continues, which could threaten some servers if people overload them.

I’m just young enough to have missed out on the days of Usenet’s prime, I really only know of it from piracy communities. I’ve never been on Usenet myself, but I’m super excited about the fediverse concept! It really could have the potential to reclaim the internet from the big tech companies.

You can even interact with Lemmy posts from Mastodon instances! This federation stuff is pretty wild, but it’s super exciting. The combination of smaller servers reminiscent of early internet with the ease of use and standardization of modern web apps has such potential to wrestle back the internet from massive corporations.

Yes! You can follow Lemmy communities on kbin, as well as kbin communities on Lemmy! :)

I think I’ve been more active on Lemmy in the past five days than I had been on reddit for the past 2 years.

Decentralization of social media is extremely enticing to me, and I really want this community to flourish, so I’ve been trying to make this into an active space.

They’re both software front-ends for thread-based uses of the ActivityPub protocol.

Basically, they both deal with the same information presented by the servers, they just handle it differently. The main difference for a user is the interface. Think of how the web client for Gmail is coded differently than the web client for Outlook, despite using the same email protocol.

Try searching with the syntax !communityname@instance.ml and maybe having to click search 2-3 times. It should then pop up and you can open it in your instance and subscribe. I believe this needs to be done by a user before a given instance will federate with that specific community, afterwards people could simply navigate to homeinstan.ce/c/communityname@instance.ml

You can only start a community on the instance you joined. As has been pointed out, people from other instances can still interact with it.

You don’t really need any guide, it’s super easy to create a community, just hit the link at the top of your page. Give it a name (this will be its address, and can’t be changed, so your community would be name@feddit.de) and optionally a display name. You can also add an icon, a banner, and a bio. After that, you just have to start sharing your community and regularly posting.

As of now, community numbers are small enough that I imagine any moderation work to be extremely minimal to non-existent.