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In general, it works pretty nice, but there are some limitations.
The biggest one for me is discoverability. The federation means that there is more fragmentation and it's harder to find the right community for something.
For example, there are country/city communities for my country/city on multiple instances. And since it's hard to find the "correct" one, it fragments out much harder than Reddit did. Combine that with generally lower attendance numbers and you get really tiny communities.
This is not aided by Jerboa, which doesn't open internal links internally. So if someone posts a link to a community and I press it, it instead tries to open it with my email app.
How does one find other communities outside of Beehaw on Lemmy, anyway?
And how do I comment there? I found some links and I go there, and I'm not logged-in. Do I have to join every instance of Lemmy...or...?
I'm using https://browse.feddit.de to find them. The search box has been getting a workout from me. Copy the link of the community, paste it in the search box, and then you can join it even if it lives somewhere else.
Been doing the same. The copying/pasting isn't awful, but it feels so incredibly clunky. I wish it was as easy as searching and clicking a join button
there is the
/c/<somecommunityname>@<someinstance.zyx>,for example /c/technology@beehaw.org. It doesn't work at Jerboa tho.That's helpful, thank you. I was able to get that to work.