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How do I subscribe to a community outside my instance? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by balerion@beehaw.org to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Hi. I've subscribed to several communities outside my instance already, but I'm having a problem where I can't seem to repeat the process for certain communities.

For example, I wanted to go to /c/test on lemmy.ml. But going to lemmy.ml/c/test takes me outside of Beehaw, my home instance, so I can't post or subscribe from there. So I checked how I could visit this community, and its URL is https://beehaw.org/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. I then tried going to https://beehaw.org/c/test@lemmy.ml, but that gives me an error page.

What do? I can't find /c/test on the communities page, either.

Apologies if I'm being dumb.

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[–] reddthat@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Pro tip, if its a community it actually federates very fast depending on the destination instance. It's just that the "Search" result box takes a while.

If you do a search for a community, press enter, then change back to the Communities tab, select All it should show up there before it shows up in your Search result.

The UI is a bit not great for showing but it's getting there. Hopefully in one of the next Lemmy-UI releases they add better UI regarding the 'we are federating, hang on a sec' items