I saw a post form somewhere on jlailu in the feed here, but it's gone now.

They've got subs /r/france and /r/forumlibre. How can I join them without making an account over there? Is there any interface other than just hand writing out what the url would be?

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[–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

You can go to the !france@jlai.lu and !forumlibre@jlai.lu communities and click the subscribe button on the sidebar.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (7 children)

    Enter the instance you would like to follow this community from

    What is an instance?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Your instance is the web domain that is hosting Lemmy. So, the instance you joined is lemmy.world. There are many instances, like lemmy.world, such as lemmy.zip, lemmy.today, lemmy.ca, and lemmy.ml (just to name a few). Additionally, there's Piefed, and there are Piefed instances like Piefed.social (where I reside), piefed.world, etc. These instances all share content via "federation".

    When you're logged into lemmy.world, you can use the built in search features to find communities (subreddits) you want to subscribe to, to see content posted there on your home feed.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    What is an instance?

    Some don't like this comparison, but effectively think of lemmy in similar forms to e-mail, IE you can e-mail your friend who uses a different mail service, by adding @whatever.com to their username. the whatever.com in e-mail that's called a domain usually, but in lemmy that's considered the "instance". The only difference is rather than just saying "that's not an address" lemmy assumes if you don't specify, you must mean the one where you are.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    The site. Lemmy.world is one example (and, since your account is here, the one I'd select), jlai.lu is another. Is this a message you're getting from some app? I haven't seen that from the default web UI.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah. The full message is

    Subscribe from Remote Instance

    Enter the instance you would like to follow this community from

    I got an error when I put in old.lemmy.world. But it claimed to work with lemmy.world.

    I don't see them in my subscriptions yet. I don't know if it didn't work or if it takes time to process.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Interesting, I see that message when attempting to subscribe while not logged in. When you click on !france@jlai.lu / !forumlibre@jlai.lu, does it show your username in the upper right corner or give you the "log in or sign up" text?

    Also, I had a message saying "Subscribe Pending" in the sidebar button for a minute or two but it did go through eventually. Sometimes things are just a little slow.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (6 children)

    subreddit

    prepare for it, OP

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    IDK what you call them here. And I haven't seen a user guide or anything.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Subscribe to the community

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago*

    !france@jlai.lu !forumlibre@jlai.lu

    These links will take you where you want to go on your instance.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    The question is somewhat confusing because in the Lemmy interface there isn't really a difference between local and remote communities. If you can access a remote community from your instance, you have the same subscribe button there as on a local one. Difficult to help you without knowing what you're currently doing and seeing.

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  • Go to their Instance (subreddit) clic follow and voilà

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    If you just search forumlibre from you user interface?, can you click on "communities" and find it there?

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