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[Solved] Can't find and subscribe to 82 communities

[Solution] What helped the most: Searching for full external URL. Don't search for 'Communities', search for 'All'. Example URL: https://instance.com/c/communityname Search for this, wait a couple of seconds, search again.

Hello, I just registered on lemm.ee today and tried to import my subscriptions. I know these communities exist, but they don't show up when I'm trying to visit them through lemm.ee.

Some examples:

lemm.ee is federated with all of them. I also checked the other side (except for kbin, don't know where to find that information on kbin). lemmy.ml and discuss.tchncs.de are federated with us. I could subscribe to some other communities hosted on these instances. https://lemmy.glasgow.social/instances might be an exception, I never saw an instance page like that.

Subscribing generally works, I successfully subscribed to about 230 communities from various instances.

Most of the 82 communities from my wishlist are probably from instances which are federated in both directions. I tried reloading the search, switching between 'Community' and 'All', to no avail.

Any ideas what might be wrong, what I could do?

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peereboominc
lemm.ee

I think that is because no one from your instance has "contacted" that community before so it does not even know that it exests. Lemm.ee is a small instance.

To do this, go to Communities and search on the full link first. The full link is something like 'https://kbin.social/m/geopolitics'. You will see 'no results'. Now search for the community by name 'geopolitics' and it will find it.

I don't know why it has to be this weird but it works.

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Spzireply
lemm.ee

Thanks for the hint! https://kbin.social/m/geopolitics will open ‘geopolitics’, but detached from lemm.ee, so I cannot subscribe. To subscribe, I have to visit the community coming from my home instance: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]

I already tried the following:

Each of these sometimes worked. I still have a backlog of dozens of entries for which none worked. [email protected] in particular worked now, so thanks for the help :)

Two things confuse me especially: Some communities cannot be found, although I'm already subscribed to other communities from the same instance. And some communities cannot be found, although I was already subscribed to them.

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sunaurusreply
lemm.ee

Hey!

It seems that you are the first subscriber from lemm.ee for these communities. By searching for the community name (or the full community URL), you are triggering a sync for that community. After that sync has completed (usually should take less than a minute), you should be able to search again and subscribe!

More detailed explanation can be found here (see the "How do I join a community from another instance?" section)

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Spzireply
lemm.ee

More detailed explanation can be found here

That's a great guide, thank you! Unfortunately, I already exhausted all the steps and some extras.

For example, there is https://sopuli.xyz/c/lemmyconfusion

I refreshed this URL a few times over the past 8 hours: https://lemm.ee/search/q/!lemmyconfusion%40sopuli.xyz/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

And searched for it through other means, as detailed in my previous comment.

Maybe tomorrow some will resolve. I just keep the tabs open and retry occasionally until the communities are found.

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Spzireply
lemm.ee

Indeed, this worked for almost all items, and the others, I dropped. Thanks!

Note to others: Beware when using this for kbin links. Then, you need to use /m/ (magazines), not /c/. It also did not work for me when searching for 'Communities' (top left most drop down), I had to search for 'All'.

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Bizzle
lemmy.world

I didn't know you could import/export subs yet. How did you do it?

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