[Solved] Can't find and subscribe to 82 communities
[Solved] Can't find and subscribe to 82 communities
[Solution] What helped the most: Searching for full external URL. Don't search for 'Communities', search for 'All'. Example URL: https://instance.com/c/communityname Search for this, wait a couple of seconds, search again.
Hello, I just registered on lemm.ee today and tried to import my subscriptions. I know these communities exist, but they don't show up when I'm trying to visit them through lemm.ee.
Some examples:
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!geopolitics%40kbin.social/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!nachrichten%40discuss.tchncs.de/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!nasa%40lemmy.ml/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!science%40lemmy.glasgow.social/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
lemm.ee is federated with all of them. I also checked the other side (except for kbin, don't know where to find that information on kbin). lemmy.ml and discuss.tchncs.de are federated with us. I could subscribe to some other communities hosted on these instances. https://lemmy.glasgow.social/instances might be an exception, I never saw an instance page like that.
Subscribing generally works, I successfully subscribed to about 230 communities from various instances.
Most of the 82 communities from my wishlist are probably from instances which are federated in both directions. I tried reloading the search, switching between 'Community' and 'All', to no avail.
Any ideas what might be wrong, what I could do?
I think that is because no one from your instance has "contacted" that community before so it does not even know that it exests. Lemm.ee is a small instance.
To do this, go to Communities and search on the full link first. The full link is something like 'https://kbin.social/m/geopolitics'. You will see 'no results'. Now search for the community by name 'geopolitics' and it will find it.
I don't know why it has to be this weird but it works.
Thanks for the hint! https://kbin.social/m/geopolitics will open ‘geopolitics’, but detached from lemm.ee, so I cannot subscribe. To subscribe, I have to visit the community coming from my home instance: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]
I already tried the following:
- Search for Community/All by name; geopolitics
- Search for Community/All by community@server: [email protected]
- Same with '!': [email protected]
- Visit from lemm.ee, by manually constructing the URL: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]
Each of these sometimes worked. I still have a backlog of dozens of entries for which none worked. [email protected] in particular worked now, so thanks for the help :)
Two things confuse me especially: Some communities cannot be found, although I'm already subscribed to other communities from the same instance. And some communities cannot be found, although I was already subscribed to them.
Hey!
It seems that you are the first subscriber from lemm.ee for these communities. By searching for the community name (or the full community URL), you are triggering a sync for that community. After that sync has completed (usually should take less than a minute), you should be able to search again and subscribe!
More detailed explanation can be found here (see the "How do I join a community from another instance?" section)
Same, can't join/find [email protected]
It shouldn't be this hard.
I didn't know you could import/export subs yet. How did you do it?