Howto: subscribe to new remote communities
Oh noes, that short community list 😱 – but hey, some have been shown to the instance already! 🎊
An instance needs to learn the network either organically from interactions or by getting pointed to nice places of the fediverse.
Finding a community
You might have seen the instancelist already. You can view their communities and subscribe to them from tchncs. Also check out browse.feddit.de for finding all teh nice communities across instances.
Syntax
The syntax for a community is !community.
The syntax for a remote community is [email protected]
The searchbox also understands full links like https://lemmy.ml/c/unixporn
Show this server a community:
Note: make sure you are searching the fediverse. Do not filter for local, which might be your default!
- Go to the search and look up a remote community that you either found on the network or simply guessed.
- The server will now try to subscribe to it in the background
- After a while the ui will refresh and show the community as a search result. This might take a few seconds. (otherwise see below).
- If you want to make sure, just search again after a few seconds or check the community-list and you should find what you were looking for.
If it's stuck at pending
There currently are many discussions around this. Right not it seems like it still works, even tho it says pending.
Is it possible to import a subscribtion list from another instance, similar to Mastodon?
Not as of now. You can create an issue for it on Lemmy's GitHub repository.
Thanks, it's what I expected. Not a (real) issue.
Not sure if you are familiar with GitHub. It is not an issue in the sense of a problem, but it is a reasonable feature one could request using the issues interface on GitHub. However, I see that such issue already exists. As expected, though, it is way down in the developer's backlog. If enough people show interest in the feature in the linked issue, its priority can change.
afaik its a known bug, try again
edit: see also https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2685
It's still a bug. That's quite heartbreaking to see.
i am not sure ... possibly ... i sometimes sub from big remote instances to tchncs communities and the biggest have this problem most often
35.6K total users, 2.75K MAU (thats odd) – and also i think the most popular communities everybody and their dog federate with
i think its just a problem with naming things... the easy names win the users. feddit ... or just lemmy.something
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but this doesnt work for me. A lot of Comunitys listed on https://browse.feddit.de/ can't be accsessed from here (all communitys from https://lemmygrad.ml/ or https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 and some others)
Why can't i accsess those? What am i doing wrong?
I tried searching for name, link and !community@instance
i am able to access this from here. please give the server a few seconds to refresh the search result, after the the two servers exchanged the required informations if it is something new that wasn't shown to this instance before :)
Oh, and make sure not to filter for local content! I keep forgetting that because my lemmy account is not configured like this.
hm strange, i tried it from the browser, now it works, but inside of jerboa i cant find them from the search..
then it might be a jerboa bug 🤔
welp, searching in browser then viewing in jerboa works, so i guess this is enough workaround for now. thanks for infos :)
New user here! Thank you for this post!
I am missing posts from remote communitys... A lot of them. In this example everything in the last 14 Hours is missing:
This is for almost all remote communities. Any solution to this?
While most communities seem to work for example [email protected] is still not reachable from here. Only 4 posts are synced and subscribe pending status for multiple days. Tried to resubscribe a few times but no change yet.
Might be because it has a lot of posts and lemmy.ml still has some federation issues but some of their communities are working correctly but several of them i am not able to subscribe to.
Based on discussions with other users, it appears that this mostly affects that instance. There is also a discussion here.
Right now i dont know if there is much that can be done on our side.. what i can say is that if you try it multiple times, you may have luck to get it to subscribed – but it is not certain if it will indeed work from that moment forward.
New posts seem to get synced now but the history is missing. Maybe an issue from when the instance was unavailable
Same thing for [email protected]. I even subscribed to it but it is not showing under Communities > Subscribed. And I can't see a single post.
Also, check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities It's an alternative to browse.feddit.de