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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[-] Zak8022@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For real. I feel like I recall a browser extension doing something similar for Mastodon. But I don’t have the coding knowledge to adapt that to this use case.

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

Interesting, I might look into modifying the extension to work for kbin

[-] Zak8022@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sweet! I would be interested, and might be able to help test. Let me know if something comes of it.

[-] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, I got it working with this type of mention !communityname@instance.domain. But I want to see if I can convert the link form too, I will probably make a post once is done.

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