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!cats@midwest.social is the long running cat-pic community.
no feed is complete without some cat pics. thanks for sharing.
I am totally looking forward to seeing some cats that enjoy a good marathon.
Sorry, complete newb here. So if I want to subscribe to cats I click on the link above and then what?
Good question! You can copy the text !cats@midwest.social, then click the magnifying glass at top right and search for the community.
It should then come up in your search results, where you can visit from your own instance, and click to subscribe.
Mastodon suffers from similar annoyances. I feel like this system could be improved, it's pretty confusing for beginners. I support frontends rewriting links, I suppose (though I suppose there is the tricky issue of deciding what links point to the fedi. Maybe "!cats@midwest.social" should not be a link....)
I agree, the copy->search user experience for exploring the fediverse is pretty terrible. For Lemmy at least, maybe any community ! links should automatically try to resolve on your instance? I also wouldn't mind an extra little popup on hover, letting you choose to follow the link through to the original instance or have it search/open on your home.
Which is actually funny when you think about it because that would be integral to utilizing the benefits of the Fediverse.
It will get figured out in time.
It doesn't even work on mobile for me. I save posts for later to join on my desktop. Lol
Most definitely, although with many of these projects its probably not a case of not wanting to make it easier, but simply that it hasnt been implemented yet. I generally tend to link so that people can check out the community being referred to -
thanks, I got there in the end!
when I searched for that text/link I'm saw posts that referenced !cats@midwest.social (hyperlinks), and when I was first trying it was going to the front page and asking me to login or create an account - fail
but one of the posts that came up in the search had a different link ... hovering over it showed https://sh.itjust.works/c/cats@midwest.social when I clicked on that one I could see cats@midwest.social ... I could also see that I was still logged in as me, and there was an option to subscribe
hopefully that helps others in this brave new world ... long live Lemmy and so long Reddit!
Easier way for Kbin seems to be dropping the "!" and putting it after Kbin.social/m/
So /m/cats@midwest.social should take you there.
You might be able to see it from your home instance by clicking this link: !cats@midwest.social
Edit: nope that's not working...