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Having trouble finding communities? Here's some tips. (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago by 2dollarsim to c/support

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I just joined the NZ lemmy here, because Lemmy.world was slow. This instance is much faster for me, but when searching for communities, many that I was subscribed to with my lemmyworld account didn't show in the search results.

I fixed this by manually finding it in the address bar, like this:

https://lemmy.nz/c/linux@lemmy.world

And this will work for all communities, just replacing the appropriate parts:

https://lemmy.nz/c/[communityname]@[instancename]

Then you can subscribe and it will show in your 'Subscribed to communities' on the main page. (sometimes I have to refresh for all to show up).

This might be a known issue at the moment, but I've only been on Lemmy for like 3 days so idk

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[–] Mishmash2000 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I’m just not sure about this. People say this but then I’ve seen it pull over posts from years ago when we’ve only existed a month so there must be more to it.

Okay, so maybe not? I just noticed that when I first sub the community looks empty. Next time I go back there's a few posts but I didn't acctually pay attention to whether they're new or old content, I just assumed I was seeing new content from the point when I subbed as that's what I read happened. Maybe it also pulls in active posts so if someone comments or upvotes an older post it gets pulled across?

Magic! Nah, it’s just that everything is using ActivityPub

It does feel pretty magic when you're not used to it. I was replying to a kbin post from lemmy.nz as easily as if it were a lemmy post and then I copied the direct link into Mastodon and replied a couple more times then went to kbin.social and it was all there! You've reminded me of when I first used twitter and replied to tweets from my non smart phone using SMS :-) I thought that was pretty cool too. I guess I'm easily impressed :-)

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, so maybe not?

I have no idea, because I also don't think it pulls all posts from before anyone subscribed. Maybe it's got criteria?

I guess I’m easily impressed :-)

Oh it is impressive, honestly it's really cool.