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.
It’s a little hit-or-miss at the moment, and unreliable.
How I do it is:
!lemmy@lemmy.ml
lemmy
!lemmy@lemmy.ml
instance 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
all
type instead of thecommunity
type. 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.