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TIL How to subscribe to a brandnew Lemmy sub on a different instance (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago by squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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When a brandnew sub opens on another Lemmy instance, your instance doesn't know about it, thus you can't search for it from your own instance.

TIL how to "tell" my instance that this remote sub exists.

Go to "Communities" in the Lemmy Web Interface
Search for !community@instance.something. For example !todayilearned@lemmy.ml
Now do another search for "todayilearned"
Done. The sub is now searchable for everyone on your instance and you can subscribe to it.

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[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does this work with kbin?

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It is the same principle (needing to search for it once before it'll be visible in search for your whole instance) but for Kbin magazines I've found I need to search for the actual URL of the magazine rather than using the ! syntax.