Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
This federation concept does not work as expected for me. If I understand correctly, I can access a community from mastodon, kbin and others. But In practice I get a lot of 404 errors.
For example, I want to access https://kbin.social/m/tech from lemmy. So I could access it by going to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected], right? But I just get a “404: couldnt_find_community” error message.
Also the search functionality seems really broken when you want to search a community from another instance, sometimes it’s in the results and sometimes it’s not. Is there a cache of some kind or a really long delay when a community is new?
I’m not 100% sure but I think as of now kbin users can view lemmy instances, but lemmy users can’t see kbin posts.
Unfortunate but hopefully they implement the feature soon.
As for search, yeah if a community is being fetched for the first time in any instance, it takes a few seconds to fetch all the info. Subsequent times search will show it instant as its already stored in local dB.
I’m surprised that no one made a bot that auto federate the instances, that would fix the search being wonky. But I guess we are in the early days.
I’m not sure if I’m doing it correctly, but when I search for other community on other instances, it doesn’t show up in the results. I tried the complete URL, the “!”, the “!” plus @instance, the name alone. Is there something special to do? Is any user can look for community?
How can we view NSFW communities from this instance? I tried but was unsuccessful. (I already ticked the box to allow NSFW in settings)
I can view those communities just fine, can you elaborate where the issue is ?
Sure.
For example, I try to see [email protected]. If I go directly there I won’t be able to see anything because I’m not logged in. If I try to search for “[email protected]” in the communities tab in the FMHY instance I get no results. I also tried this from the lemmy.ml instance where I also have another account.
The only solution I see is to create an account on the NSFW instance.
I think when you initially search, it’ll only be searching “Communities” (look towards the upper left, under the word “Search”, at the drop-down tab menu). Change that to “all” and it should repopulate below. Click on the link which has the “…NameOfCommunity… - ## subscribers” formatting, and it should take you to the screen where you can subscribe to the community to the upper right.
I would think searching with the “Communities” in the tab would work, but I’m guessing that means communities which are only in the community or instance that you are currently in. I hope that makes sense.
It makes sense. Thanks. And I’ve been able to find almost everything I’m looking for but I still find some issues while searching for newer communities.
For example, I’m looking to subscribe to the blackmetal community from lemmy.ml, I cannot find it under the FMHY instance, but I could find it with my account at the lemmy.ml instance.
Probably I’m doing something wrong, or maybe the servers are saturated.
https://ibb.co/CWKCL60 Works, here’s the direct link for you https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected]
but https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] doesn’t
Thanks, just trying to get used to using Lemmy as a non-tech savvy guy.
No worries it definitely takes time to get used to, but so far it seems well worth the effort. Cheers!
So if something were to happen to fmhy.ml and it went offline down the road. Is there a way to backup all our current subscriptions if we need to instance hop? Would be kinda annoying to hunt down all those communities again.
Currently exporting and importing subscriptions is not a feature on lemmy, which does make migration more tedious. I hope they do add it in the future. As for whether or not our instance will go offline, I do not see it happening for any particular reason right now.
