cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/350
In case your instance does not federate to something you would like it to, follow these steps:
- Go to your instance URL in a web browser - https://lemmy.cafe
- Click
Communities
- Enter something in format !community@instance, e.g.
!general@lemmy.cafe
. Click the search button.- Nothing will show up, give it a couple of seconds
- Click
Communities
again- Select
All
- Your searched community should now be on the list
- Click
Subscribe
next to it- ???
- Profit!
Tried this, and it’s not working. The instance I’m on still cannot see mlemapp@lemmy.ml
There’s a little bit of a delay as well sometimes between the search results showing “no results” to showing the community - I think the server may take a couple of seconds to do a lookup start federation, and show the community as a valid result. Just a heads up.
I think this is my biggest pet peeve about lemmy, the lack of any feedback to let you know it’s still searching. Right now it says there’s no results, then when you least expect it, there’s a result!
I did that. It finally showed up later in the day, but posts didn’t show up on my instance until almost a day later. I’m hoping this gets better with time.