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I'm new to lemmy.

When I search for [email protected] I get a No results. error. It does exist. Other discuss.tchncs.de communities come up when I search just that string.

Is it something I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: Working now. It seems it just needs time to reach out and do things. Not an intuitive experience at all -- feels broken -- but it eventually does function.

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

Something wrong with the federation? The subscriber count for different communities also seem a whole lot lower here than on other Lemmy instances. https://lemmy.sdf.org/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 for example states that [email protected] only has 83 subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It can take a little while for your home instance to federate with the remote server and find/cache the community in question. When in doubt, search for the full URL of the community, that's what works the most consistently for me.

[–] Denuath 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is weird, I also can't access it directly via https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected], even though discuss.tchncs.de is a linked instance on lemmy.sdf.org. But I can access the community via another instance, for example https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]. I'm also new to the fediverse, so I don't know what the solution to this problem is.

Edit: Found a solution, see my other comment.

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

Yes, it seems to be working now ... first try.

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

Having the same issue with some remote communities. I've been trying to access [email protected] for some time.

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

I can see it from https://feddit.nu/c/chatt ... agreed that it is not working. Weirdly, my original example is working now.

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

It's working now. I guess it was just a matter of time and syncing.

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

I think it can take a while for it to sync up after you do the initial search.

[–] Denuath 1 points 1 year ago

Ah I think I got it working now, the link https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected] should work now. What I did:

  • Login to your home instance (lemmy.sdf.org in your case)
  • Click on Search and search for the community you want to go to with the full link. So that would be https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/loseit in your case.
  • Wait until it finds something. Even when it says "No Results", just wait a bit longer.
  • As soon as it finds the other community, you should then be able to connect to it from your home instance.