I took one for the team and created account on another instance only to help with the load on lemmy.world. So you are welcome everyone, enjoy those extra nanoseconds you gained thanks to my absence.
Also, please don't call me a hero, I am just an ordinary man that wants to make lemmy.world a better place...
I wanted to do the same, but when I created account on another instance, I was then unable to find the same communities as on lemmy.world. What am I doing wrong?
Your new instance first needs to know about the community. You can nudge it into the right direction by opening Search, then type in [email protected].
This might not return a result instantly - wait a few second, then search again and it should show up. From there others can find the community using a normal search, and once you (or someone else) subscribes to it, updates will be pushed to your new instance and it appears in ALL.
Keep in mind that this doesn‘t fetch older posts - you might not see any content in that specific community at first. It will however fill with new posts and comments from that point foward.
I opened two instances. One is lemmy.world and the other was something else. Had them besides each other to simply copy the subscribed list, through the lemmy ui on Safari. When I searched on lemmy.world I could see all the communities even on different instances. But using the same search settings else where yields incomplete or no results at all.
I wanted to do the same, but when I created account on another instance, I was then unable to find the same communities as on lemmy.world. What am I doing wrong?
All communities won't show up on instances automatically so it may be that you're the first person on your instance to 'subscribe' to that community! In my experience with lemmy, you can simply add /c/[email protected] (TLD=top level domain) to whatever instance you're at and that should pull that community in, but it could take a few seconds.
This example url would access the /c/general community @lemmy.world from lemmy.zip: