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  • Oh, so i misunderstood part of your question, thanks for explaining !

    Indeed, i can’t find a way to see the Instance Sidebar on Voyager. I’ll try to dig deeper, but i think there is no option for this. If this interests you, here is the codebase for Voyager, where it is possible to suggest enhancements (though there is no guarantee they will be implemented).

    Finding communities on a specific instance also does not work easily aside from your local instance, at least on Voyager.

    For the part of your original post where you point out that the search option does not give any results of the instance about a specific country, there may be another explanation : for your instance A to show results of another instance B, they need to be federated. This works when one user of instance A subscribes to something on instance B : then instance A adds instance B to its list, and start referencing its content (though i’m not sure if it references everything, or only the content of the communities that users of instance A subscribed to). So if you see nothing, maybe it’s because no one connected to instance B on your instance A, so they’re not aware of each other. (though it seems that mander.xyz is federated to a looooot of instances, so it’s probably not this problem)

    But honestly, it’s also because the search engine seems quite bad. I tried searching for instances names i’m sure my instance is federated to, and it did show some of their communities but far from everything, and not even all the ones i’m subscribed to.

    Some info to sum up :

    • yes, searching for new communities, especially on other instances, and especially on apps, is quite hard, at least for now. Once you’re set up, it’s quite smooth, but the beginning may be strange.
    • lemmy.ml is indeed quite a folkloric part of Lemmy, but i think you’ll find alternatives for most of the communities hosted there. They’re the “test” instance for Lemmy, managed by the dev, and also quite a big instance, so that’s why they haven’t been defederated from most instances yet, but they are an exception.
    • If you want to see which instances your home instance is linked to, and which it blocked, you can find this on browser at the bottom of the main page, there is a “Instances” button.

  • It seems Voyager is available on iOS, and i suppose it works the same than on Android. Here are how to achieve what i think you’re trying to do.
    To find communities of your local instance, you can use Search/Explore and set the filter on the top-right to “Local” instead of “All”.
    To explore the content (the posts) of your instance, whether you subscribed to communities or not, you can use the “Local” option (located with “Home” and “All” in the “Communities” section of the main interface).
    To find the sidebar of an instance, you have to ‘go’ to the instance (by clicking its name somewhere, on a post or a search feed), and then there is a “Sidebar” option in the three-dots menu.
    I don’t think that all clients are from the same codebase, and i think you’re not missing one big thing, rather just some specific knowledge on how to get to the things you’re looking for (to be fair, it’s not very intuitive).





  • My two hypothesis :

    • either they don’t see most of your comments for some reason (like most comments being on lemmy.world coms and them being blocked from it), and they believed you were a fake account promoting vote
    • either they don’t care for a proper reason. I see a lot of bans from .ml being referenced as “bigotry” even when it’s only pointing out negative aspects of some dictatorship ML worships, so this could be a thing on Hexbear too.







  • Cet argumentaire est super intéressant. J’étais plutôt partisan de ne pas interdire, mais il faut avouer qu’en bon homme cishet blanc je n’avais pas du tout réfléchi aux personnes pour qui ce discours est particulièrement pesant, voire pire.

    Je reste convaincu que ce serait mieux de ne pas interdire, mais il faut de toute évidence quelque chose qui permette aux personnes qui le souhaitent de ne pas avoir à se coltiner ce contenu. Snoopy semble avoir des outils intéressants pour ça mais c’est sur Piefed. Je crois qu’on peut bloquer des postes s’ils contiennent des mots clefs, mais ce serait à chacun.e de faire le paramétrage de son côté. Ou bien faire une 2e communauté qui bloque ces contenus, mais ce serait plus galère pour les posts qui vont dans les deux communautés.