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I can't seem to add Ubuntu or Kubuntu communities on KDE's Lemmy instance (lemmy.kde.social)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess you mean you can't create an Ubuntu or Kubuntu community within lemmy.kde.social, the instance where you created your account?

I have no idea about lemmy.kde.social but most instances don't allow any user to create their own community, in that case I suggest you to send a DM to one of the mods of this instance, or wait for them to contact you from this post, or in the worst case, create an account in an instance that does allow any user to create communities and create it there.

For now I think it might not be necessary, because there are multiple Ubuntu communities in different Lemmy instances and there is a Kubuntu community in this lemmy.ml..

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

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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

I can't subscribe to either [email protected] or [email protected]

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

That's probably because in your instance no one has manually joined any community on lemmy.ml, and since no one has joined the local server has not created a "local" or federated version of that community. Still, you can do it manually but you will need to login to your Lemmy account in a browser, no matter if it is on desktop or mobile.

Now, the "manual" method sucks and I just know it because I was one of the first to join Lemmy when the Reddit drama happened, but that's the way it is:

Suppose I am a user of lemmy.dbzer0.com I want to join the community c/kde in the instance lemmy.kde.social, to do that I need to adjust the URL of my community in a special way, which is like this:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]

If you try to enter that link for you who are a lemmy.kde.social user you will probably get a meaningless error, but for any lemmy.dbzer0 user it will open the c/kde community from their own instance, allowing them to join c/kde even from their instance.

The syntax is like this:

https:{your instance url} c/ {name of the community} @ {url of the instance you wanna join}

Now, to make things easier for you, just click here to enter (from a web browser) and subscribe to the ubuntu community at lemmy.ml and here to see the kubuntu community at lemmy@ml, let me know if it doesn't work, at first you may not see posts because your instance needs to load.

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

Aah. Thank you so much for your help. I just joined Lemmy, myself. While I feel like I'm still more active on reddit, I'm slowly moving over to Lemmy. Thank you!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]