Not mine, just cross-posting.
eeltech ( @eeltech@lemm.ee ) 63•1 year agoyou know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you’re on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home
maybe I’m using it wrong, but right now If I’m browsing lemmy explorer and find a community on lemmy.ca, I have to copy the address manually and then go back and find it on my local lemmy where I have my account to add it
robotrash ( @robotrash@lemmy.world ) 29•1 year agoWhat you’re describing is one of the root issues with the current system. It’s the same reason that if your instance goes down, your account and history go with it. I’d love to see an implementation of some sort of account awareness like you said, which could also make it easier to backup history to another instance in the event that your primary goes down.
Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 13•1 year agoOh this would be nice, a standardized way to back up instances so in the case of one going down forever someone else could pick it up and start running.
I know I’m happy to run my instance, I have a great fiber line and a solid infrastructure, but if I get hit by a bus tomorrow I’d want someone else to pick it up and get running
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 7•1 year agoA one-click account transfer to a different instance would be great. However, there can be several “gotchas”, maybe the target instance has lower “permissions”, so that can lead to data loss. Eg: my instance doesn’t allow pictures more than 100 kb, some other instance doesn’t allow creation of communities. So this needs to be carefully throughout.
robotrash ( @robotrash@lemmy.world ) 3•1 year agoSeems the easiest solution to that would be to simply have a comparison view. The permissions are setup using some sort of standardized method, yes? Config file, GUI (which just alters config file), whatever. Certainly it wouldn’t be hard to simply grab and organize a list of perms from both instances and toss em up side by side. Could even add notes (i.e. if photo storage on Instance A > Instance B notify user that “migrating to this instance may cause some larger photos to be removed from your account”).
I’m not a professional programmer (sys admin, so mostly just automation) but there are certainly solutions to this.
Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 2•1 year agooh I was thinking a full instance backup. As an instance admin it’d be nice to backup the whole thing in a standardized way so someone else could grab it and spin it up if I collapsed tomorrow, all the community and users
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year agoIf the instance is setup as a docker container, then it should be easy. The following should be transferred
- docker-compose file
- zipped up volume directory
At the destination, the docker volume dirs should be unzipped and the new paths should be updated in the docker-compose file. I’m sure someone would have made a script for this by now.
Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 1•1 year agoWhich is what I’m doing, and I store the backups securely, but then there’s no standardized way of “Hey the admin is gone, can we take over” ability. I could tell my community here are the backups, but then there’s just no standardized way of transferring admin. Idk, I think most things online should have a “Will and testament” type thing. “This passes to XXX”
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year agoGoogle has a way to set a “dead-timer”. If an account has not been logged into for x days, it will pass on to someone you have decided (before dying). That can be done here also.
Lemmy is still young, so those scenarios haven’t come up yet. We just need to be a bit patient. 😄
mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year agoIt’s the main reason for mastodon feeling so off. Subbing to a community is something I can deal with, but having a network where you need to follow individuals and the way of doing it is cumbersome sucks. All of these places would benefit greatly if there was a solution.
Funwayguy ( @Funwayguy@lemmy.world ) 6•1 year agoI’d be interested in something like a lightweight CDN/replication with OAuth2 for logging into other instances. Each instance ‘replicates’ your original account but isn’t itself the master. One can be promoted to master in the event of an outage effectively migrating your account.
Would make for some difficult security considerations given a rogue instance could attempt to hijack authority.
leetnewb ( @leetnewb@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year agoI’m not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue “You are not logged in…” boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.
eeltech ( @eeltech@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year agothat would be amazing! even just like a hover popup or secondary link to send me to the community but through my instance would help a lot
minimar ( @minimar@lemmy.world ) 8•1 year ago supermurs ( @supermurs@suppo.fi ) 2•1 year agoThanks, just what I was looking for!
Mummelpuffin ( @Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year agoYou can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: !ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This way you’ll reach that community while still “on” Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever. eeltech ( @eeltech@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year agoI don’t think you understood what I was suggesting.
Use the search function at the top of Beehaw
I don’t use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let’s pretend I do. My whole premise is I don’t always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.
For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community’s instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw’s view of it
Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year agoyup, I do the same, I copy/paste the URL in the “search” box, it works, but it is not convenient…
Rick ( @howdy@thesimplecorner.org ) 42•1 year agoThis is great! Feature request… Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub to these communities easy. It’s what I’m doing in a little javascript that has helped me tremendously!
- Set a homeInstance type variable (ie; https://lemmy.ml) - manually inputted or select from found instances?
- Add a button that links to "homeInstance + “/search/q/!” + community + “@” + site + “/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1"”
- site is remoteinstance.whatever
That will take someone straight to being able to sub from their instance.
For anyone wanting my javascript that helps with subbing. Check my post here: https://thesimplecorner.org/post/4320
wdfa ( @wdfa@lemmy.world ) 28•1 year agolooks like OP is not one of the devs of this site. You should forward this idea to the github page that is linked there, as it’s a great idea.
Anahkiasen ( @Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 25•1 year agoReally well done! Much better to browse than browse.feddit.de I just wish you could “login” and hide the communities you’re already subscribed to :p
VentraSqwal ( @VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social ) 6•1 year agoThat one was missing a bunch of instances and communities for some reason, too. I’m glad we’ve got this new way to look at everything.
trashhalo ( @trashhalo@beehaw.org ) 23•1 year agoThis is huge. Now take this data and tag each community with the closest subreddit and use the api to build a thing where you can plug your reddit user and Lemmy user to recreate your reddit account on Lemmy
🤯
Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•1 year agoTo be fair, browse.feddit.de already did this
Breakpr0d ( @Breakpr0d@aussie.zone ) English6•1 year agoIs there one that combines Lemmy and kbin communities?
Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•1 year agoNot that I’ve seen
Space Sloth ( @stagen@feddit.dk ) English3•1 year agoWould love that. kbin seems to be growing a lot these days.
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year agoNot yet but should be possible some time in the future
Leo ( @leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) English3•1 year agoFor some reason, browse.feddit.de only caches our Episodes community, but lemmyverse.net caches our entire instance. 🤔I think I got it figured out. Spacing! And the two services look for different things.
Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 year agoWell that’s handy to know!
Ulu-Mulu-no-die ( @ulu_mulu@lemmy.world ) 23•1 year ago650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that’s a crazy growth!
p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful
SmugBedBug ( @SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at ) 18•1 year agoThis is great! Anything to make Lemmy adoption simpler and easier for newcomers.
jherazob ( @jherazob@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year agoBlows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn’t exist a month or two ago
dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 9•1 year agoHow is the instances list created? I just created my own instance last night and it’s already in that list. Are all federated instances automatically listed?
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year agoI think it can be some sort of BFS/DFS method to find all instances.
dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 1•1 year agoYeah, I’d guess the same. I wonder how well that’d scale as the number of instances grows larger and larger…
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year agoIf my graph-theory basics are still correct, I think it will scale linearly with more instances. The process can take longer to compute, but it’s not like the process will take more compute resources.
However, the more interesting problem would be if a random instance is created which is only connected to other newer instance, do we need to start the calculation from scratch or is there a “mid-point” from we can start the search?
DonkeyStomple ( @DonkeyStomple@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 9•1 year agoWow. As a newcomer trying to make the leap over from Reddit, that’s really nice
Hedup ( @Hedup@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year agoWhat does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?
addison ( @addison@beehaw.org ) 15•1 year agoFrom my understanding, it’s an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, !technology@beehaw.org should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
mikeycfuckinup ( @mikeycfuckinup@sh.itjust.works ) 5•1 year agoDo you know if it is normal that Jerboa crashes when trying to open Lemmy links? I assume on desktop it works correctly, but I haven’t used it as much.
AccountForStuff ( @AccountForStuff@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year agoI remember it working properly for me earlier but when I clicked the link in the comment you replied to, jerboa crashed for me too. maybe a regression or just something about this link causing a problem
Tetreo ( @Tetreo@sopuli.xyz ) 7•1 year agoI personally don’t understand what’s wrong with communities tab, it seems to give a pretty similar list to this when you apply filters looking for the most popular of all communities.
petroskoi ( @petroskoi@sopuli.xyz ) 20•1 year agoIf no one in my instance has subscribed or looked for a community, I won’t be able to find it with the search unless I have its address.
codus ( @codus@leby.dev ) 12•1 year agoI find this really useful for small instances that don’t have a large communities tab.
Jeena ( @jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ) 7•1 year agoThis is extremely useful. I wanted to post a story about China but didn’t know where until this post showed up. With this I get an overview over the instances which have China related Communities and they are sorted by users/posts/comments. This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it!
Oh and I checked it and my single user instance is there too :D
Littlejth ( @Littlejth@lemmy.littlejth.com ) 7•1 year agoThis is actually awesome. Thanks so much for this! It can definitely help bridge the gap a bit between traditional Rexxit paradigms and Fediverse ones.
dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 6•1 year agoI love this!! Thanks for the link.
bolsty_count ( @bolsty_count@thelemmy.club ) 6•1 year agoVery nice