I keep trying to make one. But when I finish writing the name and details I try hitting create and nothing happens, no comment that i did anything wrong either (im ont the mobile site btw)
Im trying to wrap my head around all this stuff now that RIF is down 😅
Ok so you start subscribed to no one - what you saw on initial setup was the instance “all” or “local” feeds
The all feed is an aggregate of all the communities that the members of your instance follows
The local feed is an aggregate of all the communities that exist on your instance.
If you want to find and subscribe to communities outside your instance - you might have some success with the search function in Jerboa or on the web interface, but that will only show communities that your instance knows about.
There are also community aggregation websites that communities can register with like https://browse.feddit.de/
There are also Reddit migration lists like
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
Theres also the community on lemmy.world called !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Which isn’t available to beehaw users, but it does advertised newly created communities across the fediverse.
If you have a URL of a new community, you can search it in the web interface on your browser, press the search button once, if it doesn’t show up, wait a minute for the caching process to complete and press it again. It should show up in the results and you can click it to open it in your instance.
When linking communities on the threadiverse it’s something like this:
!communityname@instance.org
When tagging users it’s like this:
@username@instance.org
Using these style links you can better allow people to browse the community or user using their instance to allow subscribing, commenting and following. Different apps have different degrees of support for it, but if you’re on Jerboa or the web interface it works quite well.