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Finding Communities (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m new to Lemmy and getting to grips with it all. I’ve found a community [email protected] using the aggregator lists in the starting guide. However if I use wefwef app or vlemmy in browser the search isn’t seeing this community so I can’t join. Am I doing something wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is odd. I used my vLemmy account and was able to search and find that community with wefwef and the mobile browser.

I haven’t read the entire guide, but if no one from your home instance has searched for a certain community on another instance, it won’t find it until someone searches with the full instance name to initialize the connection. For example, if no one from vLemmy has done this for that Education community, I would need to go to Communities > select All > search “[email protected]” and wait for the spinning wheel. It’s not intuitive, but after a few seconds vLemmy connects with that community and can now be searched. So you delete your search text, keep All selected, but now can just search “education” and it should become visible with the option to subscribe.

Let me know whether that helps or you’re still getting stuck.

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

Whatever you did it immediately popped up on wefwef now 😂. Thank you! I’ll keep the comment in mind for any future issues