I’ve been using Lemmy for almost a week and I’m loving it. But some aspects are still a bit obscure to me. For instance : I have my account on lemmy.ml. I used https://browse.feddit.de/ to find some communities. I want to subscribe to https://reddthat.com/c/rts.

What’s the easiest way to do so ? It looks like the search function only shows communities from the instance I’m signed on.

Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing [email protected] is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Yes, when you are the first to look up a community from another instance, it can take a minute for the server to go get that new community. I just leave the search in a tab for a bit and come back to refresh it in 30 seconds or so.

      Its a little tricky.

    • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Excellent resource, thank you. I was searching by shorthand, but apparently the problem was on the server side. Now it’s working.

  • Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing [email protected] is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

    I wouldn’t suggest spamming the button so much as being patient and maybe trying a few times (spaced out). You’re just adding to the load when you’re spamming the button.

    I do find the search interface on 0.18 to be a bit more user friendly which is nice tho.

    • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It appears that the URL search may not work for non-lemmy communities like kbin. Searching for !name@server seems to work for all communities.

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    1 year ago

    On Beehaw I can choose at the top from subscribed, local, or all. Local just gives be Beehaw threads, all is everything they’re federated with… such as your post.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Not quite. “All” only includes content from communities, that at least one local user is subscribed to. When I create a community on my instance, it does NOT instantly show up on all other federated instances, nor do posts to it.

      For a community to get federated over to another instance, at least one person must specifically enter its url or exact name in search, and sub to it.