Hello,

First of all thank you so much to the developers of jerboa, the app is simple and responsive (coming from reddit it’s a huge plus), and it just works!

One thing I am personally missing is the ability to easily discover communities. You can search by keyword and that works great, but I would rather have an exhaustive list of them all, especially as I am new here and I might be missing on some of them because I did not enter the right keywords.

The alternative i found is to search for each vowel ‘a’, ‘e’ etc… because all communities names have at least a vowel, but it would be more practical to have an actual listing

What do you think?

  • LewistrickEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is there an easy way to subscribe to a community outside of my instance once I found one on browse.feddit.de, preferably on my phone?

    Edit: replaced sub with community

    • florge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think if someone else in your instance has subscribed to a community on that other instance, then you should be able to search up your desired community in the app itself. Otherwise the url needs to be something like myinstance/c/newcommunity@otherinstance, that will let you browse to the community from within your instance and then you can subscribe.

    • SuitedUpDevEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes you can! You search via the communities tab on navigation bar.

      See my poorly made instruction screenshot. Keep in mind, it might take a second based on your instance.

      • LewistrickEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        But when I search for Python on Jerboa, I only get !python@lemmy.ml as only result, but when I search on browse.feddit.de I get !python@sh.itjust.works (among others).

        Edit: Jerboa interprets these links as email addresses. Can I do anything to change that? What should a link to a community or an instance look like?

        • SuitedUpDevEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Fun fact, you are on the same instance as me.

          But it’s probably because no other user on our instance has joined a community on sh.itjust.works. That means that federation is possible (meaning, data can be exchanged) but no data is actually exchanged. Since there is “no need”. So the moment, the first one user takes the plunge and joins a community on sh.itjust.works, data will be exchanged and this “problem” is resolved.