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 !community@server.xyz
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.
While most communities seem to work for example !matrix@lemmy.ml 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.
Same thing for !vivaldi_browser@lemmy.ml. I even subscribed to it but it is not showing under Communities > Subscribed. And I can’t see a single post.
New posts seem to get synced now but the history is missing. Maybe an issue from when the instance was unavailable
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.