[Solution] What helped the most: Searching for full external URL. Don’t search for ‘Communities’, search for ‘All’. Example URL: https://instance.com/c/communityname Search for this, wait a couple of seconds, search again.



Hello, I just registered on lemm.ee today and tried to import my subscriptions. I know these communities exist, but they don’t show up when I’m trying to visit them through lemm.ee.

Some examples:

lemm.ee is federated with all of them. I also checked the other side (except for kbin, don’t know where to find that information on kbin). lemmy.ml and discuss.tchncs.de are federated with us. I could subscribe to some other communities hosted on these instances. https://lemmy.glasgow.social/instances might be an exception, I never saw an instance page like that.

Subscribing generally works, I successfully subscribed to about 230 communities from various instances.

Most of the 82 communities from my wishlist are probably from instances which are federated in both directions. I tried reloading the search, switching between ‘Community’ and ‘All’, to no avail.

Any ideas what might be wrong, what I could do?

  • peereboominc
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    1 year ago

    I think that is because no one from your instance has “contacted” that community before so it does not even know that it exests. Lemm.ee is a small instance.

    To do this, go to Communities and search on the full link first. The full link is something like ‘https://kbin.social/m/geopolitics’. You will see ‘no results’. Now search for the community by name ‘geopolitics’ and it will find it.

    I don’t know why it has to be this weird but it works.

    • SpziOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the hint! https://kbin.social/m/geopolitics will open ‘geopolitics’, but detached from lemm.ee, so I cannot subscribe. To subscribe, I have to visit the community coming from my home instance: https://lemm.ee/c/geopolitics@kbin.social

      I already tried the following:

      Each of these sometimes worked. I still have a backlog of dozens of entries for which none worked. geopolitics@kbin.social in particular worked now, so thanks for the help :)

      Two things confuse me especially: Some communities cannot be found, although I’m already subscribed to other communities from the same instance. And some communities cannot be found, although I was already subscribed to them.