this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
2 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

43822 readers
880 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm trying to comment on this but I'm not sure how to pull it up on lemmy.world and then comment on it: https://startrek.website/comment/38082

top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thread lives in the community https://startrek.website/c/startrek , or [email protected]

If you want to view it from your home instance (to remain logged in), you can do this: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

(people from other instances replace 'lemmy.world' with theirs)

I haven't figured out yet how to navigate to specific threads with this method. But there you should see the community while being logged in. The thread in question is #4 from the top.

Not sure if it's a "better way than a title search", but it's an alternative method.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, it does take some doing, and hopefully the fediverse devs might figure out a better hand-off, but this is SOP in the fediverse right now:

  1. Search for the server you are interested in.
  2. Go to the server page
  3. Go to the upper right corner where the server is identified. In the blue field, you will see: "You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [identifier]"
  4. Copy the identifier.
  5. Go back to your home server and paste the identifier into the search field
  6. The server in question should show as a search result.
  7. Click on the link within the search result.
  8. You should be redirected to the site you are looking for, and in the upper right corner you will see the ability to subscribe to that site.

It’s a few more steps but it is effectively the same process for both Lemmy and Mastodon. Mastodon just has a more compact interface so you can have the information on the same screen.

It becomes fairly easy after a few tries. What I suggest is having two tabs open - one with your server and one where you will be searching for new servers, that way you just need to flip between windows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I search the title on lemmy.world, and got this: https://lemmy.world/post/114305

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok, so I've just joined it. You have to search for it in the 'All' communities tab and subscribe there first. Then you can post. That advice you followed in the thread you linked to is wrong - they missed out a crucial step.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, that worked. I had found it once but it had an error while I was trying to post my comment.

Is there a better way than a title search? Right now that works but when there's lots of activity it won't be ideal. It would be nice to be able to put a URL into the search bar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea unfortunately - we're all feeling our way here at the moment...

load more comments
view more: next β€Ί