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How does subscribing to communities from other instances work? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not sure if this is the best place to post, but I'm trying to figure Lemmy out. Suppose I want to subscribe to [email protected] using this account.... how do I do that?

When I go to the "communities" tab and search for "news"... doesn't show up there. I can search for "technology" and find results for [email protected]. I can go to a URL on this domain for that community; but plopping the word "news" instead of "technology" in that URL gives me a 404.

Do the admins of this instance have to whitelist specific other communities before people here can subscribe to them? Have they done that with "technology" but not "news"? (I understand if that's the case. Probably want to keep programmers.dev on topic. Just trying to figure out how lemmy works)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes total sense to me, but I'm finding that I can't e.g. subscribe to e.g. news/politics from the lemmy.ml server, or gardening on the midwest.social server. Not sure what's required to enable that, or if I'm just doing something wrong?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to copy the url of the community that you want to subscribe to, then paste it into the search. If you wait a few seconds, it should show up and then you can subscribe. If that's not working then I'm going to have to ask in the Lemmy matrix chat because I'm just as new to this as all of you lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to sometimes fail and sometimes work, like there's a bit more lag in the search when it reaches out to another server. I think I've managed to get the hang of it but it was a bit tricky at first.

Now I just have to find some sort of RES-like way to maximize screen real estate usage and I'll be set! Thanks for setting this community up!

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

I can modify the CSS. If you think there's something we should change about it, make a post in meta and we can try it out!

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

If you could add something like this as an option in the settings, that would be a really nice thing to have for redditors who are a bit out of sorts. I would rather spend my time contributing to the site rather than learning my way around a new UI if at all possible. Such a minor thing, but it looks really nice in the screenshots.