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I created two small communities on Lemmy.world, one is Militaria Collecting, and one is called Unforgotten. Following the recent hack, I decided it would be best to have several moderator accounts on different instances. As I am searching for these communities on Lemmy.ml on my alt, it won’t show up. I have tried troubleshooting, but it isn’t working. Why is this, and what can I do to allow my account to join?

This isn’t just an account issue, I fear that my communities are missing out on a lot of potential subscribers if it is unable to be seen. What can I do?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just type lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] while logged in at lemmy.ml

Do a refresh if it gives you an error the first time.

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

Same thing, refreshed, says community_not_found, try again later or go to Lemmy Matrix/Support

Any other suggestions? I have been trying for several days so I doubt trying again later would help

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

Would give me the name of the communities to give it a try?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Someone from another instance needs to subscribe to communities on your instance before they show up.

If nobody from Lemmy.ML subscribed to your communities, they won't show up there. You should be able to go to them directly with

Lemmy.ML/c/@

Edit: They may use a different directory than /c/; use whatever format the instance would normally use for a community URL, just remember to add the @instancename after the community. You may also need to put an exclamation point (!) At the beginning of the community name. Every instance seems to be just a little bit different in this regard.

Then you can subscribe to them with an account on Lemmy.ml.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Confirming that this is the way it works (at least on kbin). I just did a test run with [email protected] on Kbin.social. At first it doesn't show up and I get a 404. I then follow @Spec_OpsFive (who does exist on kbin.social via this thread that was federated there), and search again - it now shows a newly created magazine (aka community) with no posts, and I'm allowed to sub:

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

So yeah, someone has to subscribe to either the user or the magazine for the instance to start recording content from it. Once that initial step is in play, your instance records the incoming posts from the federated community.

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

Returns a 404. It doesn’t work on lemm.we either, probably due to the same reasons. I have tried that instance too, isn’t working. Any other suggestions?

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

Worked, thanks. How do I make sure people from other instances can search for my communities? Do I have to create accounts on every single one and search?

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

Returns a 404. It doesn’t work on lemm.we either, probably due to the same reasons. I have tried that instance too, isn’t working. Any other suggestions?

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

Is it just visited or also subscribed?

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

Do they actually need to subscribe or do they just need to search it up?

I'm on a smaller server that has quite a few 0 subscriber instances.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just search

!community@instance

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

That was my first thought, but I think they federated Lemmy.world after the hack or Lemmy.ml? Do I need to get my communities federated even though it’s on a federated instance?

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

Definitely a problem on Lemmy.worlds part. Just created a lemm.ee account and still can’t see my communities.

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

Same on Lemmy.ml again

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