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I took one for the team and created account on another instance only to help with the load on lemmy.world. So you are welcome everyone, enjoy those extra nanoseconds you gained thanks to my absence.

Also, please don't call me a hero, I am just an ordinary man that wants to make lemmy.world a better place...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here! Made a new account earlier today. Of course I have to comment more to make for the lost comments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only 1, amateur.

Not even sure which one I'm using right now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the way.

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

I also have a kbin account, so I'm at 3!

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

omg migration squad???

[–] very_well_lost 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got half a dozen '502 Bad Gateway' errors just trying to open this post, lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You see, and if it wasn't for my exodus then it would be half a dozen and one.

[–] son_named_bort 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't use the term hero very often, but you are the greatest hero to have ever lived!

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

Thanks, I am definitely not the greatest, so many amazing heroes in front of me. Although I am definitely in top 5.

[–] HangingFruit 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanted to do the same, but when I created account on another instance, I was then unable to find the same communities as on lemmy.world. What am I doing wrong?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Your new instance first needs to know about the community. You can nudge it into the right direction by opening Search, then type in [email protected].

This might not return a result instantly - wait a few second, then search again and it should show up. From there others can find the community using a normal search, and once you (or someone else) subscribes to it, updates will be pushed to your new instance and it appears in ALL.

Keep in mind that this doesnβ€˜t fetch older posts - you might not see any content in that specific community at first. It will however fill with new posts and comments from that point foward.

[–] TeaHands 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably something simple but unintuitive. How exactly were you searching for them?

[–] HangingFruit 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I opened two instances. One is lemmy.world and the other was something else. Had them besides each other to simply copy the subscribed list, through the lemmy ui on Safari. When I searched on lemmy.world I could see all the communities even on different instances. But using the same search settings else where yields incomplete or no results at all.

[–] TeaHands 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok so this is basically how it works:

You can search by keyword in the instance community list, but that's only going to turn up communities that the instance you're searching from already knows about. With .world being so big, we've already done most of the hard work telling it about places, and now it knows about most of them so search results turn up a lot of stuff. On a smaller instance, it's more likely that you'll be the first to try and access a particular community elsewhere.

So first, congrats, you're a pioneer for your new instance!

What you need to do is search with the !community@instance syntax on the new instance, rather than just keyword search. Note the ! at the beginning of the search term. So for example to find this community we're in right now, you'd search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

You might need to give the search results a few seconds to update, normally it'll say no results but then auto-update as it forces an index of the new community. The cool thing about this is once one person from an instance goes through this process, everyone in future can simply search by keyword and it'll show up as expected. So you're really doing your new instance a solid.

In your situation you're just trying to duplicate your sub list so you already have all of the addresses, but I can also recommend lemmyverse.net/communities for finding ones all over the place (including probably plenty that even lemmy.world doesn't know about yet).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.net/ is great - it even has a copy URL button.

[–] TeaHands 4 points 1 year ago

And you can set your home instance with the house icon in top right, so all the links will open locally for you. Real slick.

[–] HangingFruit 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanted to do the same, but when I created account on another instance, I was then unable to find the same communities as on lemmy.world. What am I doing wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All communities won't show up on instances automatically so it may be that you're the first person on your instance to 'subscribe' to that community! In my experience with lemmy, you can simply add /c/[email protected] (TLD=top level domain) to whatever instance you're at and that should pull that community in, but it could take a few seconds.

This example url would access the /c/general community @lemmy.world from lemmy.zip:

lemmy.zip/c/[email protected]

I'm still learning all of this too, so I'm sure there's a better way - hope this helps some though!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Spread that workload!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just wish people would stop hosting images on lemmy.world because they take forever to load

[–] TeaHands 3 points 1 year ago

Good work that man!

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

Me too! I guess we are just the heros you need

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

Careful, he's a hero

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

Same here. Not all heroes wear capes

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

I'm doing my part!

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

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