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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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[–] Dave 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's certainly confusing! It's saying that there are two subscribers from lemmy.nz. If you go to the original URL at https://lemmy.world/c/nba then you'll see 2,000 subscribers.

If you look at the average daily users on https://lemmy.nz/c/nba@lemmy.world you'll see this is higher, but you'll also see it's not as high as visiting the original URL at lemmy.world. I have no idea why it's all over the place but Lemmy is still young so eventually we should see things like this tidied up.

As someone else has mentioned, often it's easiest to use a third party community browser such as this one: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=NBA

That will show you the NBA community. At the top right of the page, click the house to set your home instance. Enter "lemmy.nz". Now the links to the communities will take you to the lemmy.nz page where you can subscribe.

[–] luthis 4 points 1 year ago

dude this is SO HELPFUL

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interesting. Thank you for clearing that up!

Ahh that community browser is so helpful. Really makes it a lot easier :)

Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Really appreciate the help in getting started out.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! I literally just learnt about the home instance setting while writing the comment to you, so really it should be me thanking you 😆

[–] benji1304 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is so helpful.

I've set my home community to lemmy.nz but when I open a community, I still cannot subscribe?

edit: If i click Create Post, then go back the Subscribe link now works and I get Subscribe Pending

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

Specifically with lemmy.ml, a lot of people from many instances are having trouble with pending subscribe requests.

I think it's because lemmy.ml is having trouble with so many users, the site is overloaded. You may just need to wait for it to eventually resolve.