A good starting point is to search lemmyverse.net/communities and then search for the community within Liftoff. If you find a community such as, say, "news" hosted at lemmy.world then search for !news@lemmy.world (including the !)
When you search there's a community tab, all communities across all instances are available. You can then join them and interact from your own instance.
Thank you, when I searched destiny2, that's when they didn't show up. But just using destiny showed some from other instances.
this seems to be the only way I can get this to work - if I search !privacyguides@lemmy.one in liftoff, nothing comes up. searching privacyguides@lemmy.one (no '!') then it does come up via lemmy.world and I can't subscribe since I'm not logged in through lemmy.world. pasting that link above to access through programming.dev (my 'home' instance?) allows me to subscribe through the liftoff app.
I think that's an issue with liftoff, it works fine on the web.
gotcha, thanks for responding. I'll get myself setup on the web then until thats sorted out.
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