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For example, I was told to search for [email protected] from Lemmy.world in order for Lemmy to fetch it, but searching that using Lemmy search doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've found that I've had best success for bin magazines by searching for the entire URL, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/catsubs

That being said, your [email protected] link worked just fine when I clicked it from my own instance.

Edit: Realized your home is lemmy.world. I believe the [email protected] link format may not work from there as they're still on 17.4, waiting fro 18.1 release rather than upgrading to 18.0. So, my positive experience may not mirror your own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, if it’s a matter of Lemmy.world not being updated yet then that makes sense. Your link works but pressing “subscribe” does not (it prompts me to login to KBin). Sounds like I just need to wait it out for the update. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This one works!! Subscribe pending

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for this, I was trying to subscribe using the URL formatted the other way and it wasn't working.

Does Lemmy use /C/ and Kbin /m/ for it's designation of communities?

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

Yes. C for community, M for magazine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you have the name of the sub and the name of the instance, do your instance the/c/ then the sub name.

For your example it would be lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Then you can subscribe to it from your lemmy.world username.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

When searching for a community by URL use the website only. No apps currently support it yet I think.

Edit: you can also just do it in the URL like this

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[email protected]

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

Thank you. Search by URL still doesn’t work in browser or in Limbo BUT the link you posted works when I tap on it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i am very new round here. very much yet to understand.

your https link worked for me.

this is very strange.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually pretty straight forward once someone takes the time to explain it. I'll try.

These ! Links are supposed to be universal I think. [email protected]

Then there's the long URL, https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

First you start with your instance then /c/ just like Reddit did with r/ it means you're looking for a community, then an @ to target another instance.

In this example I started at lemmy.ml told it I was looking for a community, then told it where the that community lives in this case lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

amazing!

i am now several hours of browsing into this and i can see quite easily what you have explained.

no longer confused (about this). thanks for your help!

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

I'm glad that helped!

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

For kbin use the whole url "https://kbin.social/m/catsubs" in the search function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you using it in the browser or one of the apps in TestFlight? Sometimes you need to search to initiate the request and try again a minute later after lemmy.world has had a chance to fetch it

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

Tried in browser and one of the apps in TestFlight (limbo). Those didn’t work but someone posted a link here in the comments that actually did work! :)

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

Lemmy is still going through some growing pains as feature bugs are ironed out following the massive influx of users. I believe search is one of the features that is getting attention. Hopefully you'll find improvements once Lemmy.world updates to 18 (whenever captcha gets added back in)

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