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How to easily subscribe to communities from other instances. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Lemmy for almost a week and I'm loving it. But some aspects are still a bit obscure to me. For instance : I have my account on lemmy.ml. I used https://browse.feddit.de/ to find some communities. I want to subscribe to https://reddthat.com/c/rts.

What's the easiest way to do so ? It looks like the search function only shows communities from the instance I'm signed on.

Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing !rts@reddthat.com is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you entering in the search bar?

Either paste the full URL (https://reddthat.com/c/rts) or write !rts@reddthat.com. You might need to click the next & prev buttons a couple of times for it to show up, especially for smaller communities.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, when you are the first to look up a community from another instance, it can take a minute for the server to go get that new community. I just leave the search in a tab for a bit and come back to refresh it in 30 seconds or so.

Its a little tricky.