I’ve seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don’t show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in “!communityname@instance.domain”

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

  • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.comEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I believe the devs have said they’re working on making that work more automatically. Like having it happen as soon as a user clicks a link to it for the first time on your server. And also making links to communities outside your home instance automatically be changed so that it keeps you on your instance where you’re logged in.

    For example right now if someone on BeeHaw.org clicks https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, it’ll take them to lemmy.ml where they’re not logged in. They should add /c/ tags like /r/ on reddit, and when someone on BeeHaw clicks something like /c/memes@lemmy.ml, it should take them to beehaw.org/c/memes@lemmy.ml so they can stay signed in and comment/vote/post. You can do this manually right now by creating a link like so:

    [/c/memes@lemmy.ml](/c/memes@lemmy.ml)

    • glue@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      100% agree. People keep posting communities but manually having to watch for each one is tedious when you’re trying to add a bunch at once

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Jerboa also needs a lot of improvement with following links. Right now, if I click those links in your comment that are memes@lemmy.ml, my phone assumes they are email addresses and opens my email app.

    • nude@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      I expect some innovation in this regard in the next few months. Rexit will have a big short term influx to the fediverse that will die down, but hopefully some that hang around are the developer types who are being shafted by reddit.

    • DrQuint@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Big upvote. I figured out how to follow other communities from clicking the community tab at the top and looking at the URL. But it shouldn’t be this hard. It should be way more seamless.

      There’s two things I wish this had:

      • (This is your suggestion) Lemmy websites and apps should automatically attempt to show external communities within their own website if possible, so that sharing a community from this one will still allow you to join up without further navigating

      • When seeing a “subscribe” button on another website, instead of it assuming you want to subscribe from the site itself and telling you to log in, it should first check if you’re not logged in, and if you’re not, also give you the option to subscribe to it from another instance if it finds any browser cookies for other Lemmy communities.

      With that said, both of these might be against the goals or require the cooperation of an instance, so if we ultimately end up not getting it, well, it’s fine-ish.

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Other Lemmy sites having access to a cookie that says you’re logged in could be a privacy risk for the user.

    • rawrspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Any idea if there is a delay in community searching? Someone mentioned a newly created community (1 hour ago) on sh.itjust.works and I searched on lemmy.world for it and nothing but I can visit it directly.

      • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Copy the URL and paste it into the search bar of your instance. That will force your instance to “Discover” it. It might say no results but go back to the community page then search the name again