I’m new … probably been asked a dozen times, but I searched and do not see the same issue.
I am on discuss.tchncs.de and trying to subscribe to !privacy@lemmy.ml … and it just flat doesn’t work.
There seems to be two ways to subscribe … from the privacy@lemmy.ml community, I click the “Subscribe” button, which asks for my home instance, then gives me this error:
“Could not fetch !privacy@lemmy.ml”
Alternately, searching for “!privacy@lemmy.ml” from my home page and trying to subscribe thru that, gives me this error message:
"Error!
There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn’t work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room."
… which brought me here.
Thanks in advance.
2024/02/03, 17:07UTC Addendum: As of this moment, I can no longer find this community, at all … clearly something is up with it. IDK if it’s been permanently deleted, or if they’re just having some kind of config/maintenance trouble, but for now, at least, it does not exist.
I have already successfully joined other lemmy.ml communities from discuss.tchncs.de … so it’s not an instance-wide “thing”. Can an instance defederate from a specific community?
An instance admin can “remove” a remote community, which is effectively like banning, but for a community.
You’d have to check with your home instance admins on this one.
Is that really possible? I’ve never heard about that. If it’s true, I feel like it should be public information, like defederated instances.
But in this case I have a feeling it’s just a broken federation.
It is possible.
They later made a formal announcement, and not long after backtracked entirely.