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Subbed, though as a newb to Lemmy it's a bit difficult.
Since wizjenkins isn't subbed by my server,
[!pathfinder1e@lemmywizjenkins.com](/c/pathfinder1e@lemmywizjenkins.com)was not showing up for me. I had to hand-build the/c/pathfinder1e@lemmywizjenkins.cominto my lemmy.ml.I feel like I'm either missing something, or it's something that lemmy could do slightly better.
You can post my URL into your Lemmy instance search box and it will add it to the list of communities on your server. Super unintuitive since it doesn't show you that it did that, but I discovered that doing that or getting a post on a community and posting that in the search would let you subscribe to the community.
Honestly community discovery is a super pain point right now. If I hadn't set up my own instance I don't know if I would have easily figured it out.
Actually did that and got zero results in lemmy.ml. Which was baffling to me.
The other way that works is clicking your name and then clicking the community in your "Moderates" box. Which proved to me that this instance can see your instance. If seeing your username wasn't enough for that.
Hmm that is odd. I wonder is that is some slowness in lemmy.ml since they are overloaded causing the federation to slow down. The server can be set to have a limit of federation workers, so if all of those are busy getting updates from servers it might not show up.
That's a guess though since I haven't dug into the codebase and there aren't really any architecture diagrams of how Lemmy is constructed.
Looks like I have to explicitly look for "All" and not "Communities" for some reason. "All/All" instead of "Communities/All"