My main instance is sopuli.xyz, but I often explore lemmy.ml for communities to follow since most of them are there. The problem with this is that in the app there’s no option to subscribe to a community from another instance, or I haven’t found it, at least.

Is there a way to do this?

  • shilangyu (lemmur)@lemmy.mlM
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    4 years ago

    In that case you have to put the community url into the search box of your instance. Then it will get fetched.

    Are you sure that works?

    @shilangyu@lemmy.ml Maybe we should make a separate api endpoint for this?

    Actually I noticed that search has a Url option but it is filtered out in lemmy-ui. Would this Url option work like you described?

    • nutomic@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 years ago

      Your URL is from a remote community, in the format /community/123. For fetching a community you need its activitypub ID, which is the same as its local URL on the original instance (/c/name).