How to sign in when you see other urls/websites?
I’m pretty tech-impaired so I don’t really understand the whole “decentralization” “federate” & Etc. but I saw a new lemmy “with a TTRPG community”; you might’ve seen the recent addition of "r/Accidental Renaissance. But… I can’t sign in to my Lemmy account on there! So what gives?
FYI, this is not a tech support community. You might want to delete this post to save the poor mods from the headache - it looks like they’ve been struggling with this issue lately.
Answer: from the instance you are subscribed to (lemmy.world), search for the relevant community like so:
[email protected] (replace the community and instance with the one you are looking for; this search would assume you are looking for the “chat” community at beehaw.)
The community might not come up the first time. If it doesn’t, wait a second and perform the search again. At that point, assuming your instance is federated with the instance you are looking for, you should find the community. Click in. Subscribe. You are done!
You are registered on lemmy.world - that’s your instance.
The accidental renaissance community is separated into two distinct communities: one on kbin.social, and one on lemmy.blahaj.zone
You can access both communities using your lemmy.world account, but you need to edit the URL a bit to ensure you remain on your home instance (lemmy.world):
So instead of going to
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/AccidentalRenaissance
for example, you need to instead head over to:
lemmy.world/…/[email protected].…
lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
You’ll notice that we append @the_name_of_the_instance_the_community_is_located_on to the end of the URL. Obviously, you don’t need to do this for communities hosted on lemmy.world since… you’re already here.
You can also link them in comments easily using an exclamation mark, e.g [email protected] and [email protected]
There are ways to automatically ensure you’re always on your home instance, so that this is less confusing. Personally, I use the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script via the Tampermonkey browser extension. This ensures that all lemmy links are changed so they always lead to my home instance, lemmy.world.
AccidentalRenaissance is for photos that look like Renaissance paintings. This means that they look like Renaissance art in their composition, their coloring, their saturation, the angle of the scene, the types of settings, etc. 👉 Must be a photo. Not a meme, drawing, art, ai-generated or ai-enhanced image, screenshot, low-effort post, video, page with photos, or anything else but a photo. 👉 Must be SFW. No gore, porn, extreme violence, blood, corpses, or similarly disturbing content. Absolutely no OF-like content. 👉 Comments must be civil. No slurs of any kind or using words to insult, demean, harass, or abuse other individuals or groups. 👉 The Renaissance part (not the photo itself) must be accidental to the photograph. In other words, no photos of Renaissance fairs, people dressed in medieval/Renaissance clothes, etc. 👉 NO self-promotional content. This includes influencer selfies, professional photoshoots with watermarks, any type of OnlyFans like content. 📸 If you know who the photographer is, give them credit in the comment section. This is the only type of self-promotion we allow. 👩🦯 Alt-Text for vision-impaired users in the post body or in the comments is highly encouraged. Just pretend you are describing a photo to someone on the phone. 🤘 Created by the former mod team of r/AccidentalRenaissance
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