One of the things that has been frustrating me most deeply when trying to move to Lemmy, especially as the exodus from Reddit really picks up steam, is finding new communities as they set up shop. Most of them appear to be landing on lemmy.ml, which has adopted more of an open-door policy for community creation. That's fine, I'm not asking lemmy.one to necessarily do the same. I picked this instance to take some pressure off the really big ones.
But the process is maddening.
- I search for (e.g.) the string "no man" in my lemmy.one Communities page under "All". No results.
- Someone mentions a cross-federation search at lemme.de. Why isn't this everywhere?
- I search there for "no man" and two communities pop, one at lemme.ml and one at lemmy.world. There are no subscribe links.
- The lemmy.ml one looks popular, so I copy the full URL and put it in my lemmy.one search. No results, and no "no results" message.
- OK, so I visit https://lemmy.ml/c/nomanssky directly and click "Sidebar". Nothing happens. There appears to be a Javascript error preventing anything from working (including the hamburger menu). Is this because I'm a lemmy.one user?
- Start from lemmy.ml, and search their Communities for "no man", find the community, click through, click Sidebar. I get a magic string,
[!nomanssky@lemmy.ml](/c/nomanssky@lemmy.ml)
.
- Back on lemmy.one, search for
[!nomanssky@lemmy.ml](/c/nomanssky@lemmy.ml)
. NO RESULTS.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! What is going on here?? Is lemmy.one blocking these instances? Can't be, I see lemmy.ml stuff all over. Starting to wonder if I just made the wrong choice and should go join the cool kids on a "big" instance.
Mostly just: target walls. I often then put a florescent tube light -- scaled down and rotated on the long axis -- right above the poster to give it a gallery-like lighting effect.
Sometimes, depending on wall-building wonkiness, certain posters will clip through. Best thing I can suggest then is to put two flat-panels on the wall, overlapping and scaled down to just larger than you want your poster to be, then put the poster on top of those. Gives a nice "frame" effect. Buuuuuut that can be wonky too, and some posters will sometimes clip through the flat panels, for Reasons known only to HG.
Alternately, sometimes you can put a second poster on top of where the clipped one went, and that will stack enough that the second one sits "one top" of the wall.