People need to realize you can use alternatives

  • JayPenshar
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.

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        Do you know how the communities work? So if a community is created on a server it only exists there, right? So if a server decides to shut down the whole community goes down with it? That would kinda suck and then it actually makes sense to only join one server and support it instead to make its survival more likely

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          I believed peered servers cache the content of their peers. So if the origin server goes dark, existing content can still be viewed while it’s still in cache

          I’m not sure if this feature exists, but community replication could be useful for resilience.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah that bit makes sense. It is just trying to figure out how I access content using my account without relying on trending all. I haven’t had much luck with the category searching on all yet.

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      1 year ago

      I tried subscribing to a specific feddit.de community using Jerboa and I haven’t been able to yet. Not sure whether I’m misunderstanding something or whether that’s not possible.

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          I have an account and I’m logged in. I’m posting this from Jerboa. But it’s not a feddit.de account. Maybe I’m missing something.

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            Jerboa search only finds communities that at least 1 person on your instance subscribed to, to find new communities from other instances easily I like to use https://browse.feddit.de/

            Then when you find a community, go to the web version of your instance (don’t worry it’s (mostly) mobile friendly) and type [email protected] (don’t forget the !) Then you can subscribe there. Close and reopen Jerboa and your new community will show up in the list. The Jerboa devs are working on fixing this.

    • lich_hegemon@lemmy.world
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      Multiple servers, all sharing data with one another. Lemmy.ml is just one of them.

      Think of discord, but you can access channels from other servers from your own, and see what people write there.