Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
I’m not sure if I’m doing it correctly, but when I search for other community on other instances, it doesn’t show up in the results. I tried the complete URL, the “!”, the “!” plus @instance, the name alone. Is there something special to do? Is any user can look for community?
Anyone can lookup, but if it’s a community that’s being fetched for the first time, it might take a few seconds. Try to refresh and it should be visible after that.
That’s my understanding, but I’m trying since yesterday and still no results. From Jerboa I succeeded in finding one community, but since then, it looks like I cannot even though I’m on browser right now. edit: is it possible API are overwhelmed by the number of recent requests?
can you send me the url of the community you’re trying to fetch? let me try it on my end.
How do I do that from Jerboa?
did r/piracy announced their Lemmy Instance?
Yep, they are on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Hmm, so if I created a new instance, it would be in my best interest to go to a bunch of other instances and create an account and subscribe to my other instance.
Is that a recommended technique?
How can we view NSFW communities from this instance? I tried but was unsuccessful. (I already ticked the box to allow NSFW in settings)
I can view those communities just fine, can you elaborate where the issue is ?
Sure.
For example, I try to see !gonewild@lemmynsfw.com. If I go directly there I won’t be able to see anything because I’m not logged in. If I try to search for “!gonewild@lemmynsfw.com” in the communities tab in the FMHY instance I get no results. I also tried this from the lemmy.ml instance where I also have another account.
The only solution I see is to create an account on the NSFW instance.
https://ibb.co/CWKCL60 Works, here’s the direct link for you https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/gonewild@lemmynsfw.com
I think when you initially search, it’ll only be searching “Communities” (look towards the upper left, under the word “Search”, at the drop-down tab menu). Change that to “all” and it should repopulate below. Click on the link which has the “…NameOfCommunity… - ## subscribers” formatting, and it should take you to the screen where you can subscribe to the community to the upper right.
I would think searching with the “Communities” in the tab would work, but I’m guessing that means communities which are only in the community or instance that you are currently in. I hope that makes sense.
