Lemmy
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
It's a little hit-or-miss at the moment, and unreliable.
How I do it is:
- Search the community using its full name, e.g.
[!lemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml) - It'll show up no result if the community hasn't been "encountered" by your instance before. If it has, it'll just show up here and you can subscribe to it.
- Search the name again, only this time just the first part, e.g.
lemmy - The
[!lemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml)instance should show up.
Basically the first time you search, your instance will go and download/cache the community for future users. For some reason though, the search seems to lag behind a little in showing it.
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
Sweet, thanks for sharing. I hope the search and community federation aspect is improved with time.
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?
Afaik its a known visual bug
Everyone is having that problem with lemmy.ml recently.
Subscribing to lemmy.ml communities from feddit.de is currently broken ("Subscribe pending", stays for hours), probably due to issues with federation due to load.
If you're using jerboa, sometimes it just doesn't work, but usually if you do !community@instance in the search bar and wait a little, it shows up.
If it doesn't, it will show up if you copy and paste it in a new tab or the same search bar.
Happy posting!