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 🤷
Here’s a screenshot of what I get. Am I even in the right place? https://imgur.com/04FfhiC
For me, the whole
!name@servernever works somehow. What does work for me is searching for the name of the community. Likesyncforlemmyorasklemmy.Sometimes the community has never been subscribed from your server. Then you should search for the full link before searching by name. Full link is something like
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]. Searching for the full link will trigger the sync process to your instance.Awesome advice, thank you very much! I figured there had to be a way to ‘brute force it’ as your second paragraph explains.
@WhiteTiger
For me it works when I look up [email protected] (without the exclamationmark in the front). Does that work for you?
Yes! Thank you, I guess I was too rigidly sticking to the copy/paste instructions.
From my experience you did it correctly. With the ! tells your instance to go and index that community. Once it’s indexed you will find it without the !.
That indexing can also take a while and I usually need to refresh the community site inbetween searching with and without !.