WanderJun 9, 2023

PSA: if a remote community hasn't been fetched by your instance yet, you need to search for it

https://yiffit.net/post/1346

PSA: if a remote community hasn't been fetched by your instance yet, you need to search for it - Yiffit.net

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don’t show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in “[email protected]” Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

Show threadbdonvr

I believe the devs have said they're working on making that work more automatically. Like having it happen as soon as a user clicks a link to it for the first time on your server. And also making links to communities outside your home instance automatically be changed so that it keeps you on your instance where you're logged in.

For example right now if someone on BeeHaw.org clicks https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, it'll take them to lemmy.ml where they're not logged in. They should add /c/ tags like /r/ on reddit, and when someone on BeeHaw clicks something like /c/[email protected], it should take them to beehaw.org/c/[email protected] so they can stay signed in and comment/vote/post. You can do this manually right now by creating a link like so:

[/c/[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

Jun 9, 2023 at 11:53pmWeb
Show threadglueJun 10, 2023
100% agree. People keep posting communities but manually having to watch for each one is tedious when you’re trying to add a bunch at once
Show threadSammichParadeJun 10, 2023
Posting where? And where can you watch?
Show threadlixus98Jun 10, 2023
@ernest could this work on kbin as well?
Show threadZak8022Jun 10, 2023

AFAIK, it does. But the url structure is slightly different. Instead of
https://kbin.social/c/[email protected]
It would be https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] with an “m” instead of a “c”.

I’m still learning, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

Show threadlixus98Jun 10, 2023
It would be awesome for it to convert https://lemmy.ml/c/memes into https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] automatically.
Memes - Lemmy

#### Rules: 01. Be civil and nice. 02. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

Show threadZak8022Jun 10, 2023
For real. I feel like I recall a browser extension doing something similar for Mastodon. But I don’t have the coding knowledge to adapt that to this use case.
Show threadlixus98Jun 10, 2023
Interesting, I might look into modifying the extension to work for kbin
Show threadZak8022Jun 10, 2023
Sweet! I would be interested, and might be able to help test. Let me know if something comes of it.
Show threadnudeJun 10, 2023
I expect some innovation in this regard in the next few months. Rexit will have a big short term influx to the fediverse that will die down, but hopefully some that hang around are the developer types who are being shafted by reddit.
Show threadSammichParadeJun 10, 2023
Rexit lol
Show threadxyonJun 10, 2023
fleddit
Show threaddeuxenunJun 10, 2023
That would be very nice indeed
Show threadrawrspaceJun 10, 2023
Any idea if there is a delay in community searching? Someone mentioned a newly created community (1 hour ago) on sh.itjust.works and I searched on lemmy.world for it and nothing but I can visit it directly.
Show threadbdonvrJun 10, 2023
Copy the URL and paste it into the search bar of your instance. That will force your instance to "Discover" it. It might say no results but go back to the community page then search the name again