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Can't find a lemmy community from another server? (lemmy.ml)

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

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2365391

I'm on lemmy.ml, and I want to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek. There it says to put [email protected] into search on my instance to subscribe, but it doesn't turn up anything. Anyone know why this might be, and/or how to work around it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The problem is most likely that nobody on lemmy.ml has ever searched for the songaweek community before. That means that the [email protected] "shorthand" URL will not work. This is a big problem for smaller or younger instances. The problem is so pervasive on Lemmy right now that Lemmy.ninja voted to recommend people use the full URL when linking to communities in our communitysearchtips community.

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

no man, that "shorthand" is exactly how you're supposed to search for new communities. Its exactly how I've added every community to my personal instance