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Subscribing to a community of another instance? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm sure this has been asked and answered before but I can't find it.

How do I subscribe to a community from another instance? I read you just search communities with the url of the community you want to join, but that didn't work for me. Even with variations in formatting: !community@instance, for example.

Perhaps there should be a sticky somewhere that explains the slight complexities of the fediverse since it's clearly a bit foreign to most users. I've been on lemmy for over a year and I'm constantly discovering functionality I was unaware of thanks to all the new lemons coming in and asking questions.

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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can skip steps 2 and 3 if you search for the all type instead of the community type. See point 2 of the find and subscribe section of https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

[–] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sweet, thanks for sharing. I hope the search and community federation aspect is improved with time.

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it normal for it to say "Subscribe Pending"? Does that mean its up for moderator review or jjust that the instance needs a moment to make some type of copy of the data?

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Afaik its a known visual bug

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago

Everyone is having that problem with lemmy.ml recently.