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How to initiate federation to an instance (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/350

In case your instance does not federate to something you would like it to, follow these steps:

Go to your instance URL in a web browser - https://lemmy.cafe

Click Communities

Enter something in format !community@instance, e.g. [!general@lemmy.cafe](/c/general@lemmy.cafe). Click the search button.

Nothing will show up, give it a couple of seconds

Click Communities again

Select All

Your searched community should now be on the list

Click Subscribe next to it

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Profit!

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[–] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried this, and it's not working. The instance I'm on still cannot see mlemapp@lemmy.ml

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You need to add an exclamation mark in front.

[–] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It finally showed up later in the day, but posts didn't show up on my instance until almost a day later. I'm hoping this gets better with time.

[–] poohbear@toons.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a little bit of a delay as well sometimes between the search results showing “no results” to showing the community - I think the server may take a couple of seconds to do a lookup start federation, and show the community as a valid result. Just a heads up.

[–] smstnitc@lemmy2.addictmud.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is my biggest pet peeve about lemmy, the lack of any feedback to let you know it's still searching. Right now it says there's no results, then when you least expect it, there's a result!

[–] poohbear@toons.zone 2 points 1 year ago

TBH, the UI of Lemmy is rouuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. I'm confident through attention with more ex-Redditors joining + through open source contributions, it'll get better and better, stuff like this will be resolved (even with something as simple as a loading spinner)