I’ve already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances.

For science topics, mander.xyz has a lot of good ones set up, and !solarpunk@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net has been great!

edit: for new users - you can type ! to begin autofilling a community, even for ones on other instances, like I did for the solarpunk community above. It may take a few seconds for the autofill results to show up if you have a slow connection like me.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Interesting. You can also try https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/c/popheads. On the website I know there’s a bug where it doesn’t show a loading spinner either, so it may take a few seconds after clicking search for it to show up even though it looks like it’s not doing anything.

    Lemmy.ml is also inundated with new members right now, they’re actually 404ing for me right now, so they may be having issues connecting.

    • Theroddd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the fast response. It’s really appreciated. When I follow your link I still cannot subscribe. I get “not ogged in” whe. Trying to subscribe through the communities tab. Or I get the enter thing into the search bar prompt.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Oh don’t go to the link, paste it into the search bar from your logged-in instance. (The other one should also have worked, but again lemmy.ml is a bit slow and may be having issues).

            This is how it looked to me from the website, make sure “All, All, and All” are selected