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” !syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml. 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/syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml I still have no clue what !syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml does and why I’m instructed to use it 🤷

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I just want to point out, your hack for searching for just “syncforlemmy” will only work with two Instances that are already federated. While most large ones already are, it may not always work with small Instances.

    This is why it is not preferred. But most of the time it should be fine.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Your use of terminology is confusing.

    There aren’t different “fediverses.” There is one single Fediverse - that’s the sum total of all the different federated services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.) which can potentially communicate with one another, and the individual servers providing those services (like Lemmy.world, which is the Lemmy server where you have your account as well as the one hosting this community) interacting with each other.

    Could you be more specific about what particular thing on the Fediverse you are trying to use, and from which user account?

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you’re on desktop go to the “communities” tab, select “all” under “list of communities,” and search for “syncforlemmy”. That will show you the syncforlemmy communities on lemmy.ml as well as here on lemmy.world (which has many more users, if that’s important to you) and elsewhere, and you can click each one to have a look and subscribe.

  • _spiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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/announcements@lemmy.ml

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s a bit finicky, but when this kind of search hasn’t worked for me, I’ve had success searching without the ! or just pasting the community’s URL into the search.

  • DreamGryphon@veganism.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    @WhiteTiger

    Hm, did you make sure that you are actually pasting it into the search bar when you are logged in to your account on lemmy.world, and not on the page where it sais you have no account?
    I don’t have a Lemmy account but I can find your post there from my Mastodon search bar, so at least some parts of it are connected. .;