Disclaimer: I’m a noooooob.
I am logged in to lemmy.world.
I have a feed (Beehaw Local) which I open in a new tab about Reddit affecting Google. with the beehaw.org URL (so I’m not logged in or registered) posted by someone at lemmy.world.
If I follow the link, I’m still inside Beehaw, same goes for the Technology link.
My confusion is that I can’t see how to open and interact with that post without making a separate Beehaw account.
Why am I so stupid on this platform?
Why am I so stupid on this platform?
you’re not stupid, it’s just that the federated aspect of it combined with technical problems (things not being completely in sync) makes everything a bit confusing
edit: btw, I think the easiest way to link to another community is simply with /c/community@server, so /c/technology@beehaw.org for example. Sadly these aren’t converted into links automatically yet, but if you do that manually like this, it should work on all instances: /c/technology@beehaw.org
If you’re subscribed to that community, it should be at the URL https://lemmy.world/c/technology@beehaw.org for you (if you aren’t subscribed yet you should be able to do so from that link). Then when you open the post from there it should be at the lemmy.world URL (https://lemmy.world/post/113642) and you should still be logged in.
Ah, when I do that, I see ‘Subscribe Pending’ :(
Strangely, I cancelled and subscribed again - now
✔ joinedSome of the popular servers are probably struggling right now, so it might have just needed a do-over.
I’m still figuring out this stuff too though so who knows!
I seem to have ‘Subscription Pending’ on quite a few instances. It does seem to be server dependent. I’m not sure how it effects anything yet. I’m still quite new to this and learning as I go along.
Pretty sure that’s just a cosmetic issue on Lemmy 0.17.3. BeeHaw is updating to 0.17.4 in about 4 hours, which may resolve that. Either way, if you see that, you should be subscribed!
I think you need to search for it on lemmy.world and then subscribe and post from there. I’ve had luck copying the urls and pasting them into the lemmy.world search.
