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Some communities on other servers not working/federated? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca

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I'm wondering if this is an issue with this instance, or a deliberate choice by either server operator which communities to federate between lemmy.ca and the other server?

In this case: https://lemmy.ca/c/chat@beehaw.org works, https://lemmy.ml/c/support@beehaw.org works but https://lemmy.ca/c/support@beehaw.org gives a 404 error code.

Any advice or available workarounds would be appreciated.> good 5-10 seconds for the result to show up. i believe it needs to query the server and takes a bit sometimes.

E: Answer thanks to smorks: You have to search for the community on lemmy-ui and wait 10 seconds or so for it to appear, then anytime after the community search result is essentially "cached" for everyone on your server and will appear immediately, even within a partial search.

E2: Search for !community_name@lemmy_instance.com in the searchbar, filtering by Communities. If it shows "No results", try again in 10sec. If it shows nothing or the community then it is discovered and the federated URL (your_instance.com/c/community_name@lemmy_instance.com) should work.

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[–] sikhness@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you all able to get any lemmy.world communities to show up? Is lemmy.ca not federated to that?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

So I figured it out, I'll try to update the post:

Search for !community_name@lemmy_instance.com in the searchbar, filtering by Communities. If it shows "No results", try again in 10sec. If it shows nothing or the community then it is discovered and the federated URL (your_instance.com/c/community_name@lemmy_instance.com)

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

weird, for some reason I wasn't subscribed to this community. Sorry about that! On to your question:

https://lemmy.ca/c/support@beehaw.org will work now, but only because you have to first search for it, either using the url for the instance it's on (https://beehaw.org/c/support) or the following format (!support@beehaw.org).

I believe that's just how the federation works on lemmy, if the no one has searched and/or subscribed to the remote community, you will get the 404 error code.

hope that makes sense!

edit: also, when searching for it, give it a good 5-10 seconds for the result to show up. i believe it needs to query the server and takes a bit sometimes.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am new here and I am trying with !greenspace@beehaw.org in the search. It does nothing. Not even an error and waiting 10-15 sec doesn’t work either.

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think beehaw is overloaded right now, probably why it's not working.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I finally got one by just using the community name but I can’t subscribe 🤷🏻‍♀️

[–] Ashwag@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I've had the same questions, so I'd love to know too! :D