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How does subscribing to communities from other instances work? (self.meta)
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Not sure if this is the best place to post, but I'm trying to figure Lemmy out. Suppose I want to subscribe to [email protected] using this account.... how do I do that?

When I go to the "communities" tab and search for "news"... doesn't show up there. I can search for "technology" and find results for [email protected]. I can go to a URL on this domain for that community; but plopping the word "news" instead of "technology" in that URL gives me a 404.

Do the admins of this instance have to whitelist specific other communities before people here can subscribe to them? Have they done that with "technology" but not "news"? (I understand if that's the case. Probably want to keep programmers.dev on topic. Just trying to figure out how lemmy works)

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[–] u_tamtam 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t this just mean that you would have to have an account for multiple different servers?

I don't think so, you should be able to subscribe to anything from https://programming.dev/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

[–] a_statistician 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are quite a few communities on other servers that don't show up on the listing. I'm not sure if it's just an issue where things aren't syncing well because of server load? I remember similar issues with mastodon during some of the exodus spikes from the birdsite.

[–] snowe 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have to copy and paste the community url you want for it to find it. Idk why it works that way. Probably to reduce load.

[–] coha 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not working for me unless I switch the dropdown from Communities to All. Maybe a bug?

[–] snowe 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry for the late response. I think that's how it has to work, but it's super weird. We need to add some proper directions in how to subscribe to other communities lol