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For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].

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PSA: if a remote community hasn't been fetched by your instance yet, you need to search for it (yiffit.net)

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

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I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "[email protected]"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

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

You should see it on the top right on the page, i take a screenshot if that doesn't help

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

New and also very inexperienced- I tried searching for [email protected] but am getting no results. Can someone explain to me like I’m an idiot 😂

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

What you want to do is search for @[email protected], basically just replacing the exclamation mark (!) for the @ symbol.
Why? Because kbin uses the @ symbol and Lemmy uses the ! symbol for the communities.

Edit: I'm working in an extension for chrome and firefox it will basically convert the lemmy format [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) to the kbin format so you just need to click on it.

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

I'm not currently using kbin but this is awesome

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

Did the same for [email protected] and a few others. This fediverse thing is kinda harder than it needs to be.