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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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[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always have to copy-paste the URL of the community on its home instance, or the !community@instance.tld form, into the search box on my instance, with no spaces before or after it, and then mash the search button for like 30 seconds until it federates over and appears as a search result.

[–] 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