Oh noes, that short community list 😱 – but hey, some have been shown to the instance already! 🎊
An instance needs to learn the network either organically from interactions or by getting pointed to nice places of the fediverse.
Finding a community
You might have seen the instancelist already. You can view their communities and subscribe to them from tchncs. Also check out browse.feddit.de for finding all teh nice communities across instances.
Syntax
The syntax for a community is !community.
The syntax for a remote community is [!community@server.xyz](/c/community@server.xyz)
The searchbox also understands full links like https://lemmy.ml/c/unixporn
Show this server a community:
Note: make sure you are searching the fediverse. Do not filter for local, which might be your default!
- Go to the search and look up a remote community that you either found on the network or simply guessed.
- The server will now try to subscribe to it in the background
- After a while the ui will refresh and show the community as a search result. This might take a few seconds. (otherwise see below).
- If you want to make sure, just search again after a few seconds or check the community-list and you should find what you were looking for.
If it's stuck at pending
There currently are many discussions around this. Right not it seems like it still works, even tho it says pending.
Der Server sucht öfter mal nicht schnell genug für das Frontend wenn der remote Raum noch nicht bekannt ist... einfach etwas Zeit geben und nochmal suchen.
Wie viel Zeit ist denn ungefähr "etwas"? Ich versuche seit gestern immer mal wieder !vegan@feddit.de zu finden, aber da tut sich nichts.
Edith: jetzt hab ich es gefunden... Aber auch nur mit dem Namen (bzw. habe ich nach "vegan" gesucht - "!vegan@feddit.de" findet weiterhin nichts). Vielleicht hab ich auch die Suche noch falsch verstanden.
In der Suche braucht es den direkten Link also z.B. https://feddit.de/c/vegan. Die Syntax in Form von !vegan@feddit.de scheint es wohl noch nicht zu verstehen.