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How to easily subscribe to communities from other instances. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 [email protected] is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.