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 Wander@yiffit.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 "!communityname@instance.domain"

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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[-] Garrathian@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] warmblood@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

New and also very inexperienced- I tried searching for !totk@lemmy.ml but am getting no results. Can someone explain to me like I’m an idiot 😂

[-] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What you want to do is search for @totk@lemmy.ml, 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 [!communityname@instance.domain](/c/communityname@instance.domain) to the kbin format so you just need to click on it.

[-] mbp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not currently using kbin but this is awesome

[-] Ozymandias_KoK@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Did the same for !sysadmin@lemmy.ml and a few others. This fediverse thing is kinda harder than it needs to be.

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