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[SOLVED] Why is my Lemmy instance not finding other instances' communities? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sdg to c/selfhosted
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Edit: YOOOOOOOO YOU CAN EDIT TITLES HERE

Anyway, you have to first search for the community in the format [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]). It doesn't show up the first time but if you mash Enter for a while it will...

Also, this FAQ linked by @[email protected] is pretty helpful and covers some of the pitfalls of being the first (or only!) person in an instance to subscribe to a community: https://lemm.ee/post/37715

Edit 2: Found https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3055 requesting better support for discovering federated communities. Please consider upvoting that issue if you have a github account and think it would be helpful!

I made myself a lemmy: https://tortoisewrath.com

You may notice I am not writing to you from said lemmy... because https://tortoisewrath.com/c/[email protected] is a 404. In fact, though it appears to have federated itself with a bunch of other servers, it only appears to be able to see two communities. These were among the first few communities I tried to access ([email protected] didn't work but those two did) - since adding those two, I haven't been able to see any others, even on lemmy.ml where the first two were.

Is this normal? Do I just need to be more patient and it'll figure it out on its own, or is there some switch I need to flip to make it do the thing?

(Apologies if this is obvious to those who understand the fediverse but I have no idea what I'm doing)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there a description like this for kbin.social? Not sure if it's just because of some cloudfare issues but for example communities on the Lemmy instance feddit.de do not show up for me on kbin.social. Some of their posts do, though.

But if I search for e.g. [email protected] on kbin.social it won't show up and therefore I can't subscribe to it from kbin's side.

EDIT

Now it suddenly shows up under Magazines on kbin.social. How often do new communities on Lemmy instances get federated to kbin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe you just need to remove the exclamation point and search for [email protected] on kbin. Not totally sure why but I expect this is just one of the kinks that'll be ironed out once things are less on fire around here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just tested this, yes remove the exclam and it works.