• Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    Urgh, yeah.

    I use the ‘official’ Jerboa app and the web interface and duuude is it a Hassle to add a sole unknown community!

    I’m doing them all for what I know ; pasting different link types into jerboa search, pasting the instance, !first, /c/ … Going to web UI, doing the same, doing the lemmy.mysite.com/c/[email protected] or what the correct thing is (I have it somewhere) and obviously it still doesn’t work.

    For like 30 minutes.

    Then it “just works” 😅

    It would be great if admins at least (I can see the possible abuse if anyone can force-feed communities to the instance, but well they can today so… ) can add communities to their instances by some “add-list” the server grabs quickly (I know we can by subbing to them but see above, it sure is not easy). Could be cool to be able to grab a bunch of fun communities, or art communities, or sport communities or whatever someone shares, and just force feed them to your instance.

    I thought whitelisting was something along those lines, I sure was surprised 🙂.

    Great job though Lemmy Developers, I’m quite sure Lemmy will roam the internet for ever!

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      It would be great if admins at least (I can see the possible abuse if anyone can force-feed communities to the instance, but well they can today so…) can add communities to their instances (I know we can, by subbing to them but see above, it sure is not easy).

      Isn’t that how Lemmy’s all feed works? If someone else subscribes to an outside community it shows up under everyone’s all tab?

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        1 year ago

        Yep, but it’s a big hassle to actually sub to a community not yet known to your instance. That’s like the problem.

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        1 year ago

        It “just” grabs all communities with >50 user’s & upvotes and subs you to them?

        Kind of brutal lol, but maybe it can be reworked to accept specific communities…

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      Let’s be honest, this is partially on Jerboa for being the oldest and most convoluted active Lemmy app.