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Can't see all communities on other servers? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 years ago by llama@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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Does the Midwest server not store essentially dead communities from other servers? For example I can find and join technology@beehaw but not iasip@lemmy.ml. I am guessing because the IASIP community doesn't meet some content or engagement threshold. But, I want to post there so it will meet the threshold! It seems like this could create duplicate communities across servers if small communities can't be easily revived.

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[–] FormerGameDev@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if you search a community, to try to list it, then it loads all references to that community, and drops the community link itself to the last page.

one can do midwest.social/c/communityname@other.site and load the community through here .. so.. it's like... almost there, just not quite designed properly to connect... (since ! links take you to the other site, there doesn't seem to be a way to link to that community on this server which seems to be what i would more often want to do)

[–] Menachem@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

copy/pasting someone else's comment: For now, as a workaround, you can manually make it a hyperlink: /c/technology@beehaw.org

Just use [/c/technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org). This should open correctly on all instances.