I filed a bug report for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5337
Die4Ever
both sides need approval from the instance owner
correct, that's basically what https://lemmy-federate.com/ does, it just subscribes for each instance
Communities in Lemmy/Mbin are not federated by default. So when you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. At least 1 person from all other instances must follow it in order to make it available. This tool does that. It follows your community from all remote instances until at least 1 other person follows it.
I think that requires the instance owner to approve, and the approval process probably won't work with NodeBB?
the search should work, but give it time
I know it says no results found when the local search finishes even though it's still doing the remote search
also some apps may not yet support hyphens in community names, but at least it works for me in the web browser
if the direct link to the announcement wasn't loading for you, then their server was probably having issues (it was earlier too)
Will this comment federate?
It indeed does to Lemmy.
although NodeBB users don't see context unless you quote them
hello from Lemmy!
their server is down right now, but it did federate with lemmy.ml before going down https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]
https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]
also you can read their announcement from their Mastodon profile @[email protected]
edit: it's back up, to see the announcement post in Lemmy format, put this in your Lemmy's search: https://community.nodebb.org/post/102756
it's from [email protected]
some forums that use NodeBB, will be interesting to see if they enable federation
oh you let it autocomplete, check the source of your post
at least on Lemmy, it works better if you don't let it autocomplete... kinda silly, but there's a bug report for that on the Lemmy side, idk about Mbin
Does Lemmy allow hyphens in community names? I know it allows underscores