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Maybe I'm not using it correctly but I'm hiving issues using the search functions to find communities. The community i was trying to find was the Reptiles and amphibians community on mander (https://mander.xyz/c/herpetology). I'm not sure how to sub otherwise. Cheers!
because you are using the wrong word
Thanks for your help! I did try herpetology but without the extra formatting. I'll try this from now on.
the formatting is key though you dont need the @mander.xyz if you are local you just need the "!" at the beginning.
When you click into a community youll see the "lookup name" right under the title
It's one of the things they don't tell you hahaha. Thanks for your help.
With federation, if no-one has subscribed to it before you need to use the !community@instance format. This triggers the server to attempt to fetch the community for the first time. Otherwise you probably would have found it with reptiles (ithink)
To tag people you can also do @username@instance
When on the web interface it should try to auto-populate as well when doing those formats.