I’m new to lemmy.
When I search for [email protected] I get a No results. error. It does exist. Other discuss.tchncs.de communities come up when I search just that string.
Is it something I’m doing wrong?
EDIT: Working now. It seems it just needs time to reach out and do things. Not an intuitive experience at all – feels broken – but it eventually does function.
Something wrong with the federation? The subscriber count for different communities also seem a whole lot lower here than on other Lemmy instances. https://lemmy.sdf.org/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 for example states that [email protected] only has 83 subscribers.
It can take a little while for your home instance to federate with the remote server and find/cache the community in question. When in doubt, search for the full URL of the community, that’s what works the most consistently for me.
This is weird, I also can’t access it directly via https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected], even though discuss.tchncs.de is a linked instance on lemmy.sdf.org. But I can access the community via another instance, for example https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]. I’m also new to the fediverse, so I don’t know what the solution to this problem is.
Edit: Found a solution, see my other comment.
Yes, it seems to be working now … first try.
Having the same issue with some remote communities. I’ve been trying to access [email protected] for some time.
I can see it from https://feddit.nu/c/chatt … agreed that it is not working. Weirdly, my original example is working now.
It’s working now. I guess it was just a matter of time and syncing.
Got it.
I think it can take a while for it to sync up after you do the initial search.
Ah I think I got it working now, the link https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected] should work now. What I did:
- Login to your home instance (lemmy.sdf.org in your case)
- Click on Search and search for the community you want to go to with the full link. So that would be https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/loseit in your case.
- Wait until it finds something. Even when it says “No Results”, just wait a bit longer.
- As soon as it finds the other community, you should then be able to connect to it from your home instance.
