Edit: YOOOOOOOO YOU CAN EDIT TITLES HERE

Anyway, you have to first search for the community in the format !whatever@where.ever. It doesn’t show up the first time but if you mash Enter for a while it will…

Also, this FAQ linked by @Wistful@discuss.technics.de is pretty helpful and covers some of the pitfalls of being the first (or only!) person in an instance to subscribe to a community: https://lemm.ee/post/37715

Edit 2: Found https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3055 requesting better support for discovering federated communities. Please consider upvoting that issue if you have a github account and think it would be helpful!

I made myself a lemmy: https://tortoisewrath.com

You may notice I am not writing to you from said lemmy… because https://tortoisewrath.com/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world is a 404. In fact, though it appears to have federated itself with a bunch of other servers, it only appears to be able to see two communities. These were among the first few communities I tried to access (technology@beehaw.org didn’t work but those two did) - since adding those two, I haven’t been able to see any others, even on lemmy.ml where the first two were.

Is this normal? Do I just need to be more patient and it’ll figure it out on its own, or is there some switch I need to flip to make it do the thing?

(Apologies if this is obvious to those who understand the fediverse but I have no idea what I’m doing)

  • @neoneyAEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    Wish it would at least copy the instance list when federating, or have it as an option
    Feels so empty browsing All when it’s identical to Subscribed

      • @neoneyAEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        Thanks, gonna watch it. I wonder if it’s possible to set up some bot account that would just search for communuties to make them accessible?

        • @sdg@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1•6 months ago

          I was thinking about writing a script that just periodically fetches the community list from some major servers and searches each of them on my own…

        • TortoiseWrathEnglish
          1•6 months ago

          I was thinking about writing a script that just fetches the community lists from some popular instances then searches them on mine…

            • TortoiseWrathEnglish
              2•6 months ago

              lol, my bad. i replied from the wrong account and tried to delete it and do it again but I guess it didn’t delete the first one fully