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For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].

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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (21 children)

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])

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

Posting where? And where can you watch?

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