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Trouble reaching communities on other instances (lemmy.click)

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

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Hello, fellow clicks!

Since I migrated from reddit a few days ago (here to stay), I tried to find and subscribe to communities of interest. Sometimes it works, but more often it does not.

I try to

find the community using the built in search function: "space"
force-find the community by changing the query to: "[email protected]" or "[email protected]"
manually construct the URL: https://lemmy.click/c/[email protected]

Neither works currently for this community, although it exists: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

Am I doing something wrong? Has this worked before all the reddit refugees came, Is it a temporary issue?

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

I know this one!

If you go to the search function, paste in [email protected] then search, your post pops up immediately, right? But you have to wait a few seconds for this instance to sync with the other instance (not sure about the technical details here) and the link to the community will eventually appear.

I tried it just now and it took maybe 7 seconds for the community to appear. Then you click that link, open the sidebar of that community, and subscribe.

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

Thank you!

If you go to the search function, paste in [email protected] then search, your post pops up immediately, right?

Yes!! And weirdly enough, this part did it for me. I was searching for 'Communities', but I had to search for 'All'. Then, not only did I see this post here, but also the community! Which would not show up when searching for communities, lol.

So with this trick, I now could subscribe to a couple of previously unreachable communities, by not searching for communities.

I tried it just now and it took maybe 7 seconds for the community to appear.

I know what you mean. Rarely that's the case for me too. But some queries never yield a result. I tried for some over 24 hours on and off. Some now resolved by using 'All' instead of 'Communities'.