That’s kind of a bummer. On Mastodon I can follow people from other instances, why can’t I subscribe or even see communities on other instances?
That’s kind of a bummer. On Mastodon I can follow people from other instances, why can’t I subscribe or even see communities on other instances?
Glad you got it sorted. I’ve managed to confuse myself though in trying to subscribe to nfl@lemmy.ml. It should work and I can go to here and subscribe fine: https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
But this gives me a 404: https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/nfl@lemmy.ml
…wtf??
what am I not understanding now??
Can you visit, https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works ?
Nope! Something odd is happening. Need to be back at my computer to properly dig into it.
I think I’ve got it worked out now: those URLs don’t just magically work and load needed content on demand, Lemmy needs to decide to create them.
The first time that that community is “seen” by the instance, e.g. because I searched for it, Lemmy populates some stuff behind the scenes and then the URL starts working. By just doing manual URL gluing rather than the “proper” search system, I was bypassing the process.
I’m seeing this more than some people might because discuss.techncs.de is pretty new, so there’s lots of communities that no-one on my instance has ever visited/followed.