How do I subscribe to communities on other instances that no one has subscribed to yet?
How do I subscribe to communities on other instances that no one has subscribed to yet?
I've tried solutions explained here and here. I am trying to subscribe to some communities on the TTRPG Network. Am I missing something?
One thing that wasn't obvious to me initially when I started searching for
!community@instanceis that the search results are fetched asynchronously. So you might see "no search results" and think it failed, but if you let it sit there a bit, the results will often appear. Hitting the "Next" button sometimes helped too.Okay, and the instance was very flaky earlier today, maybe that's why. I'll try later and see.
I was having a ton of difficulty with this initially following the documented steps and was getting a “404 community not found” issue for something I knew was on lemmy.world.
Convoluted so if anyone knows a better way please share (using mobile):
- Tap the hamburger from your home server
- Tap Communities
- Enter minimally three characters and hit search (this should take you to a more robust search page)
- Change the Communities drop down to All
- Paste the url for the desired community and tap Search
- Tap the community
- Tap the sidebar and Subscribe
Don’t know why it doesn’t work the normal way or when the URL option is used. Only All worked for me.
Search for either the url or !communityname@instance in the search bar with it set to all and then you can navigate to it using a link
Ex. for ttrpg if you want the rpg community you would search for https://ttrpg.network/c/rpg in the search bar
And then you can get to it from https://programming.dev/c/[email protected] (make the link manually in this format)
Using the manual URL worked best I think. The other approach (
!community@instance) never seemed to load.I do have a follow up question though, why do these posts look so different on each instance? Do we only get new content going forward I suppose? The post itself is from before I subscribed so old posts seem to come in, I guess maybe not old comments though?
Yeah theres some shenanigans with the federation. Dont know what exactly causes it but probably something with other servers not federating fully with us yet due to not much interact between the two instances
Do you have any insight into the server's performance? I was getting some errors around the same time before I tried. Maybe it was just lag. That's basically what I tried (I think, maybe I got a small detail wrong). I'll try later and see.
The server was getting hit by a ddos attack earlier if you were getting 404s when trying to use programming.dev
Its running fine now though
The second link contains the probably the answer. If you did everything right with the search and your desired community still does not show up it might be because your instance defederated the other instance