It works fine if I am using a lemmy.world based account, but for other instances it isn’t working. It is not just for me either, other users are reporting the same thing. What can I do to fix this?
New communities don’t automatically federate. Someone who is logged into the instance has to interact with them to cause their instance to discover the new community.
- Someone needs to search for the community in a specific way for the community itself to be discovered.
- Someone needs to subscribe for posts/comments to get federated.
See https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827 for more details.
But your community will show up on lemmyverse.net, and will show up for people on your instance. Beyond that you have to advertise it in new-community communities and in juggling adjacent communities where interested folks might hang out.
I see, thank you for taking the time to make this explanation, I really appreciate it!
Just access the community while logged in to another instance; then it will be visible to search.
For example, it’s over there: https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]
And it’s visible in their search: https://programming.dev/search?q=juggling&type=Communities
See the other message I have written - you should always recommend search. The URL only works if someone has already searched for that community. If you’re on a big instance, that’s almost always true, but on a smaller instance it often isn’t.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Excellent! Thanks so much, this is precisely what I needed to learn!
The above advice isn’t perfect - in general, use Search first.
Until the first person searches for a community on your instance, your instance doesn’t know about it and the URL won’t work. Searching (usually using the [email protected] form) should always work.
Equally, your instance doesn’t start pulling data on a community (messages etc.) until someone subscribes to it, and then when subscribed it will sometimes take a a few hours to get it all (it should immediately start getting new posts and comments).
Excellent! Thanks so much for the info, this clears things up. I appreciate it.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Shows up for me when I search for “[email protected]”
Thank you! I’m surprised you found such an old unpopular post.
It’s working for me
Thankyou
