If you’re like me, you would join one Lemmy instance, and then join a community by one of the following ways,
- through a 3rd party search
- on the server you are on
- a link to the community
Let’s say you find a community you like hosted from a different Lemmy instance, you bookmark it and find out that you have to make another account, which you don’t, in order to post, interact and save settings.
We can fix this by modifying or editing the URL in the bookmark.
say my main account is in Lemmy world, I click a link to another community and it acts as if I should have an account on there and I can’t log into my account through new instance! How do I make it just work with just my original account?
using https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming as example (not in the screenshot but same concept)
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at the beginning of the url, I would want to change the lemmy.ml to lemmy.world this tells “them” i’m on the instance that I signed up on.
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at the end of the url right after the name of the instance lastly I would want to add @lemmy.ml. This is useful with communities with double names in different instances! Sometimes what will happen without that included in the url is “they’l” will take to the community you asked for but only if it’s from that community at the start of the url, so be sure to have that in the bookmarked URL.
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the bookmarked URL in my case should end up looking like this, https://lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
There might be others on !plugins@sh.itjust.works
On Lemmyverse you can set your home instance so that link open on it automatically
This seems like a weirdly unnecessary way to not quite manage to duplicate what lemmy has been designed to do.
How do I make it just work with just my original account?
You go to the community list for your instance and do a search on the URL of the community you’re interested in. Then (assuming that your instance is federated with the other one) your instance will create its own mirror of the community, and you’re done.
I agree it’s probably weird, unnecessary? eh depends on use case. lemmy (atleast the website) seems to meet me halfway with why I would use Bookmarks to begin with. one thing I can’t seem to figure out is how to set custom categories for Lemmy communities that I subscribe to/order them without having to unsubscribe and subscribe again to communities, in the web interface.
one thing I can’t seem to figure out is how to set custom categories for Lemmy communities that I subscribe to/order them
Yep. Lemmy doesn’t provide any community management tooling, which is a shame, because a little can go a long way. Some clients provide some help, but generally it seems to be a lacking feature set.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
context of the post at hand is important, but good job for atleast looking out for potential mistakes.
