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The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?

If the communities haven't synced to your instance yet, then you can prompt the instance to sync them by copying and pasting them into your instance's search page. Unfortunately lemmy doesn't do this automatically when you visit the URL, at least not yet.

Once the communities are synced, then you should be able to just click the links to visit them and subscribe from there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I get no results? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, sorry

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, that's surprising. I didn't expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g. [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I'm trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? Iโ€™m trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.

I'm really not sure, but it sounds like these could be issues related to feddit.uk? I suggest asking about this on a community there, or messaging an admin of that instance.

[โ€“] malcolm_miller 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Running into this too, on desktop. It's pretty confusing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It can take a very long time sometimes for the community to show up. It is still searching in the background even though it says "No results".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to your instance, click ok search and paste each one in there, then you can just access them like regular subreddits. If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.

That's actually not true! If you format the links like this: /c/[email protected], like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they're viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is awesome. Thank you for explaining the formatting!