EDIT: Solved! Feel free to comment/message me if you’re having the same issue and I’ll be happy to help.

Supposedly I can subscribe to stuff from *fediverse accounts on other instances, in fact it’s one of the main selling points of the fediverse, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how.

"You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: "

Except nothing ever shows up in any search, either in community searches or the top search bar. It doesn’t even look like it’s trying to search. I also can’t find a place to just paste what specific instance sub I want to sub to.

Does this just not work or am I missing something obvious?

EDIT: Here’s a screenshot https://imgur.com/04FfhiC

EDIT2: I DID IT! So my error was following the instructions to “paste the following into the search engine of your instance” [email protected]. What I ACTUALLY needed to do was just search for syncforlemmy in ‘All’.

Also, I can just use the URL field to navigate to a page that has a subscribe button, like this: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] I still have no clue what [email protected] does and why I’m instructed to use it 🤷

  • _spiffyEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    In order to subscribe to another instances communities you still need to be on your community. For example if you click a link that takes you to https://lemmy.ml/c/announcements it will take you to lemmy.ml where you are not logged in, however if you click on the community name is a post that shows up in your feed, you will browse that community FROM lemmy.world.

    You could also browse like this:

    https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]