Not quite. From what I've read, I think only text is downloaded, pictures and other media are just links. So not everything needs to be downloaded. Also to trigger/maintain this connection (federation) at least one person from your instance needs to be subscribed.
But you won't find this community in the search bar because you're not federated yet. So to trigger the initial federation you'll need to search for the full URL, the entire URL including "https://" (https://lemdro.id/c/android) It won't show up at first, so try again in a few seconds, and sometimes you'll need to try a lot of times if the instances are running slowly. But eventually your instance will find the other community on the other instance.
But at the time I'm writing this lemdro.id is apparently offline so it won't work at all right now.
I ended up just starting over...
I was just thinking because I'm the admin of both servers that I technically have access to all of the data...
That's hilarious! I wish that was the problem but I checked that I was about to type the password correctly.
Yep. I just set it up. I've never done anything like this before and I was really worried about opening the ports up because I don't really know what I'm doing it's kinda my first time. Besides Minecraft and whatever.
No I'm not sure at all but it's just so so weird! It's an old password that I shouldn't have used at all being so old and basic. It's just annoying typing in your password on Linux all the time lol
Nope... Unfortunately...
If that's all it is I'd be pretty embarrassed... Lol
me too... i wish i never clicked that dumb box lol
yes, when i visit the site it gives me a 404 error.
404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site
If you do decide to make them community I'd be happy to join. Or even help moderate it with you. I'm quite comfortable with Lemmy and moderate 5 communities with between my accounts. I also used to be a vegan and would like to get back there.