I just want to point out, your hack for searching for just "syncforlemmy" will only work with two Instances that are already federated. While most large ones already are, it may not always work with small Instances.
This is why it is not preferred. But most of the time it should be fine.
It usually takes a couple tries (for me), sometimes 3 or 4, before they show up in community search. Usually, just waiting 5 or 10 seconds does the trick, and they'll come up the second time I search.
I was struggling to do the same. figured i could use my first post here to talk about it and make sure i can post cross instance.
I wanted to subscribe to lemmy.ml/c/dota2 from kbin.social
i ended up finding that i could access that instance from kbin from the following url:
https://kbin.social/m/dota2@lemmy.ml
maybe this will help you out
In order to subscribe to another instances communities you still need to be on your community. For example if you click a link that takes you to https://lemmy.ml/c/announcements it will take you to lemmy.ml where you are not logged in, however if you click on the community name is a post that shows up in your feed, you will browse that community FROM lemmy.world.
You could also browse like this:
It's a bit finicky, but when this kind of search hasn't worked for me, I've had success searching without the ! or just pasting the community's URL into the search.
Your use of terminology is confusing.
There aren't different "fediverses." There is one single Fediverse - that's the sum total of all the different federated services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.) which can potentially communicate with one another, and the individual servers providing those services (like Lemmy.world, which is the Lemmy server where you have your account as well as the one hosting this community) interacting with each other.
Could you be more specific about what particular thing on the Fediverse you are trying to use, and from which user account?
I'm registered on lemmy.world. I want to subscribe to https://lemmy.ml/c/syncforlemmy. I can't figure out how, because pasting "!syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml" in any of the search bars returns nothing.
If you're on desktop go to the "communities" tab, select "all" under "list of communities," and search for "syncforlemmy". That will show you the syncforlemmy communities on lemmy.ml as well as here on lemmy.world (which has many more users, if that's important to you) and elsewhere, and you can click each one to have a look and subscribe.
Thank you! I'm still learning, is 'community from another instance' the proper terminology?
That'll do it! Welcome.
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