There are a bunch of other servers with existing communities set up - you can connect to them from here with your startrek.website account.
Searching them is a tiny bit tricky - if you’re the first person here to search for it, it won’t show up because that server hasn’t connected to this server, so go to https://browse.feddit.de/, find communities you like, and connect to them using:
startrek.website/c/<COMMUNITYNAME>@<INSTANCE>
e.g. to connect to the Music community at beehaw.org:
If you’re the first person to connect, the subscriber stats are all wrong (and some posts may not load). Give it a few minutes and refresh. I’ve seen subs jump from 6 subscribers and 0 comments on every post, to 300+ subscribers and 20+ comments on each post.
Once you subscribe, other people can find the community more easily on the “All” page here. So you’re getting more content, AND you’re helping others find more communities!
The official lemmy documentation isn’t very user-friendly I believe!
I personally prefer this Guide to finding Lemmy communities.
There are a bunch of other servers with existing communities set up - you can connect to them from here with your startrek.website account.
Searching them is a tiny bit tricky - if you’re the first person here to search for it, it won’t show up because that server hasn’t connected to this server, so go to https://browse.feddit.de/, find communities you like, and connect to them using:
startrek.website/c/<COMMUNITYNAME>@<INSTANCE>
e.g. to connect to the Music community at beehaw.org:
startrek.website/c/[email protected]
If you’re the first person to connect, the subscriber stats are all wrong (and some posts may not load). Give it a few minutes and refresh. I’ve seen subs jump from 6 subscribers and 0 comments on every post, to 300+ subscribers and 20+ comments on each post.
Once you subscribe, other people can find the community more easily on the “All” page here. So you’re getting more content, AND you’re helping others find more communities!