[Answered] How do I subscribe to communities of other Lemmy instances?
[Answered] How do I subscribe to communities of other Lemmy instances?
On another Lemmy instance, I saw that I was not logged in but could subscribe by putting "[email protected]" into the search field. However, when I put it into the search field of this Lemmy instance, it gives me a comment containing that string, but does not allow me to subscribe.
What is the correct way to do it?
Easiest is to just search the URL of the community. In this case search for https://lemmy.ml/c/emulation using your instances search tool. It seems to work even when the !community@instance syntax fails to find the community.
Optionally you can write the address by yourself using yourinstance/c/community@otherinstance as the URL. In your case that would be https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected].
For the lemmy.world instance try: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected].
Thanks, that helps me for this. Is this a general way? So I don't put it into any search bar, but just write https://lenny.world/c/(everything without !) or is the emulation community a special case?
Our New User FAQ contains a write-up of exactly what you're trying to do. Hopefully it helps!
That's not the official way but that's how the URL for communities looks like, at least currently. If you want you can automate that with a bookmark on Firefox: https://lemmy.world/comment/332210 (see also my comment there about %S vs %s).
What you are doing is right, but it takes some time for your instance to set up the connection to the new community. Give it a few minutes, then search for the community by its plain name (e.g. emulation) under all.