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I've been using Lemmy for almost a week and I'm loving it. But some aspects are still a bit obscure to me. For instance : I have my account on lemmy.ml. I used https://browse.feddit.de/ to find some communities. I want to subscribe to https://reddthat.com/c/rts.

What's the easiest way to do so ? It looks like the search function only shows communities from the instance I'm signed on.

Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing !rts@reddthat.com is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What are you entering in the search bar?

Either paste the full URL (https://reddthat.com/c/rts) or write !rts@reddthat.com. You might need to click the next & prev buttons a couple of times for it to show up, especially for smaller communities.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, when you are the first to look up a community from another instance, it can take a minute for the server to go get that new community. I just leave the search in a tab for a bit and come back to refresh it in 30 seconds or so.

Its a little tricky.

[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

write !rts@reddthat.com

That's what I was doing bit it didn't work. Now it's working, and I believe my instance was having temporary issues. Thanks for your answer :)

[–] Generator@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Excellent resource, thank you. I was searching by shorthand, but apparently the problem was on the server side. Now it's working.

Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing !rts@reddthat.com is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

I wouldn't suggest spamming the button so much as being patient and maybe trying a few times (spaced out). You're just adding to the load when you're spamming the button.

I do find the search interface on 0.18 to be a bit more user friendly which is nice tho.

[–] vamp07@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just search for the URL of the community. It worked for me.

[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, it finally worked. Apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It appears that the URL search may not work for non-lemmy communities like kbin. Searching for !name@server seems to work for all communities.

[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On Beehaw I can choose at the top from subscribed, local, or all. Local just gives be Beehaw threads, all is everything they're federated with... such as your post.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Not quite. "All" only includes content from communities, that at least one local user is subscribed to. When I create a community on my instance, it does NOT instantly show up on all other federated instances, nor do posts to it.

For a community to get federated over to another instance, at least one person must specifically enter its url or exact name in search, and sub to it.