I’m sure this has been asked and answered before but I can’t find it.
How do I subscribe to a community from another instance? I read you just search communities with the url of the community you want to join, but that didn’t work for me. Even with variations in formatting: !community@instance, for example.
Perhaps there should be a sticky somewhere that explains the slight complexities of the fediverse since it’s clearly a bit foreign to most users. I’ve been on lemmy for over a year and I’m constantly discovering functionality I was unaware of thanks to all the new lemons coming in and asking questions.
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It’s a little hit-or-miss at the moment, and unreliable.
How I do it is:
- Search the community using its full name, e.g.
!lemmy@lemmy.ml - It’ll show up no result if the community hasn’t been “encountered” by your instance before. If it has, it’ll just show up here and you can subscribe to it.
- Search the name again, only this time just the first part, e.g.
lemmy - The
!lemmy@lemmy.mlinstance should show up.
Basically the first time you search, your instance will go and download/cache the community for future users. For some reason though, the search seems to lag behind a little in showing it.
You can skip steps 2 and 3 if you search for the
alltype instead of thecommunitytype. See point 2 of the find and subscribe section of https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827Sweet, thanks for sharing. I hope the search and community federation aspect is improved with time.
- Search the community using its full name, e.g.
If you’re using jerboa, sometimes it just doesn’t work, but usually if you do !community@instance in the search bar and wait a little, it shows up.
If it doesn’t, it will show up if you copy and paste it in a new tab or the same search bar.
Happy posting!
