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Can't subscribe to communities (leminal.space)

submitted 1 week ago by libraryambience@leminal.space to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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Okay, so first I thought that I had subscribed to a few communities from different servers and they weren't showing up in my feed. But apparently I never subscribed to them and seem unable to do so.

Here's what's happening: I go to a different instance and browse their communities. When I want to select one and tap "Subscribe" I'm asked to enter my home instance and then am redirected there, it says "Community federated!" but then a completely different community (from the instance I was browsing before) is shown below that with a "subscribe" button. No matter how often I try, I'm never directed to the community that I wanted to subscribe to.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ah, the remote community federation from actually another instance might be finicky.

Let's take an example: !movies@lemm.ee

if you click that link, you should get redirected to https://leminal.space/c/movies@lemm.ee , which would allow you to subscribe (that works 100%)
if you go to https://lemm.ee/c/movies and try to subscribe and then give your home instance, that might not work.

The first option is usually preferred, and that's while you'll see a lot of ! links over here.

A good community to discover communities: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca , especially this post: https://leminal.space/post/15455263

[–] libraryambience@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago

This worked! Thank you! :)

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 week ago

I usually just search for the community from my instance. They look like e-mail adresses: community@instance.tld

When the community is new on your instance you will have to wait a few seconds and maybe try again.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

While on the https://leminal.space/ website, open the search page and paste in the community ID or the URL of the community. Give it a few seconds (even if it says no results found, the remote search can take a few seconds longer than that)

I think the remote subscribe feature you were trying to use is still buggy, I've had issues with it before too.