Privacy - Lemmy
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# A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world. Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy. In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy. ### Some Rules - Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post - Don’t promote proprietary software - Try to keep things on topic - If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered - Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience - Be nice :) ### Related communities - Lemmy.ml libre_culture [https://lemmy.ml/c/libre_culture] - Lemmy.ml privatelife [https://lemmy.ml/c/privatelife] - Lemmy.ml DeGoogle [https://lemmy.ml/c/degoogle] - Lemmy.ca privacy [https://lemmy.ca/c/privacy] much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity. Happy to be here!

I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.

I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.

I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.

Any hints?

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I just unfollowed and re-followed Privacy on .ml, and it’s left my follow request as ‘pending’. Not sure what’s up there, but it does seem like there’s something a little wonky going on on their end.

  • humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    13 hours ago

    Are you using a Lemmy mobile app? On voyager I just view the privacy community at [email protected] and select subscribe from a drop down. I don’t have to choose any instance to follow from. I’ve never had an issue subscribing from voyager.

    • reliant8521@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      13 hours ago

      I am now! Summit let me subscribe with a single tap, and I prefer the UI to the web version.

      Cheers.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Summit is one of the most beautiful apps for Lemmy. That said, it can be very hard to do things in it, so you may want to get acclimated to using the webpage version of Lemmy before you let yourself enjoy the ease and beauty of Summit on a daily basis, so that you are not as frustrated trying to get things done more quickly later on.

        Fwiw, I am typing this using Voyager, but here too I often find myself needing to pop open a post in the browser environment. 🙂

        • reliant8521@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Cool, I did a quick search to see what FOSS non-slop apps people were recommending, and summit came out well.

          Can you elaborate on specifically what is more difficult to achieve within the app? I don’t

      • anarcockworkorange@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Summit is great. On the web, search for remote communities in your own instance server. This will let access the com within your home server, and you should be able to subscribe with a single click.

        • reliant8521@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah so this is how I started -searching [email protected] however despite me knowing its there and being able to visit it, it doesn’t appear as a result.

          That’s what led me to visiting Lemmy.ml and clicking subscribe from that end.

          Any way - subscribing from Summit has worked, and the [email protected] appears in my subscription list on the web ui too.

  • BuckFutter@timeyak.comEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    Cheers and welcome. Not sure if this is your issue, but I found I can’t subscribe to an community that has a user with the same name as the community…never found a workaround for that. Also, .world may have just banned .ml out right lol.