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Finding and Subscribing to external Lemmy Community (self.meta)

submitted 2 years ago by CadeJohnson to c/meta

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I used https://browse.feddit.de/ to discover a community of interest and they provided this link to subscribe: !electronics@discuss.tchncs.de but when I paste it in the search field for joining a community, nothing happens, or sometimes there is a "not found" message. A growing pain I suppose. I will keep trying . . .

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[–] CadeJohnson 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I found it on the ALL communities list and subscribed that way (well, subscribe pending). I noticed two things that might be helpful to others: 1. when you click subscribe, the page may not refresh to show that subscribe is pending, but the click was noticed. Second, the number of subscribers in the ALL communities list may be inaccurate - perhaps because of that need to sync as mentioned above. Thanks poVoq!

[–] poVoq 2 points 2 years ago

The "subscribe pending" thing is a bit annoying. It still works fine, so it doesn't really effect your use of the community, but it looks odd. Often it helps to unsubscribe and resubscribe, but I noticed that when the remote instance is having load issues this often fails as well.

Its a known issue though and with the big upcoming improvements for Lemmy version 0.18 it might be fixed anyway. Lets see :)