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 “!communityname@instance.domain”

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

      • lixus98@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        What you want to do is search for @totk@lemmy.ml, basically just replacing the exclamation mark (!) for the @ symbol.
        Why? Because kbin uses the @ symbol and Lemmy uses the ! symbol for the communities.

        Edit: I’m working in an extension for chrome and firefox, it will basically convert the lemmy format !communityname@instance.domain to the kbin format so you just need to click on it.