and they don’t show up in the lemmy community browser
Communities are not visible to other instances until some user manually adds them.
If you are on one instance and you have the link for a community of another instance, that does show in the first, just copy the entire url of the unknown community, paste it in the search field of the instance that doesn’t know about it and search for it. It will NOT show up the result, but you can then delete the url and search again by its name. You will see the community now appear because you just indexed it.
I just learned this today, so I am going to spread it wherever possible.
No worries. Every single tip to make the experience better for people here, I am trying to spread it and it would probably help everyone if people did it as well.
You can let others know about this and also you can index more communities on your own. I know I’ve been doing it to connect more communities.
I was referring to the community browser which lets you see all available communities. But yeah you won’t see them in your home instance until they are specifically searched.
The awkward thing about this is that as soon as someone does subscribe to that community, it’s visible to everyone in the community browser. So if you suddenly see some weird shit start appearing, you’ve got to look around and wonder who it was that caused that to appear…
Communities are not visible to other instances until some user manually adds them.
If you are on one instance and you have the link for a community of another instance, that does show in the first, just copy the entire url of the unknown community, paste it in the search field of the instance that doesn’t know about it and search for it. It will NOT show up the result, but you can then delete the url and search again by its name. You will see the community now appear because you just indexed it.
I just learned this today, so I am going to spread it wherever possible.
Tysm! I was able to subscribe to it because of you.
No worries. Every single tip to make the experience better for people here, I am trying to spread it and it would probably help everyone if people did it as well.
You can let others know about this and also you can index more communities on your own. I know I’ve been doing it to connect more communities.
I just learned that earlier today. I made a post about it here: https://mander.xyz/post/660612
I’m with ya though. It’s all new to us and the word needs to be spread. ✊
I was referring to the community browser which lets you see all available communities. But yeah you won’t see them in your home instance until they are specifically searched.
The awkward thing about this is that as soon as someone does subscribe to that community, it’s visible to everyone in the community browser. So if you suddenly see some weird shit start appearing, you’ve got to look around and wonder who it was that caused that to appear…