Hello,
I created the community “Japanese Metal” https://sh.itjust.works/c/japanese_metal The problem is, it can’t be found on several other instances. I tried on Lemm.ee and Kbin.social, and both return a “not found”. What’s wrong? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
You need to be a user at that instance and write the community in the search box so that it’s discovered and fetched for the first time.
Type it in as !name@instance.domain
Search Wait a few seconds Refresh page if still doesn’t show. Then it should appear. Subscribe
This teaches the remote instance that this community exists.
I signed up there and searched the community, didn’t work. Waiting and refreshing also didn’t do anything.
I’m able to see it when I search my instance. I used the URL and waited -
That’s weird, I couldn’t find it on either .ee or kbin. Maybe one of the bugs that’s haunting Lemmy right now.
Can potentially be slow federation. I only have two people on my instance so it’s not like it’s spending much time doing anything else. I’ll check it out on .ee in a sec if I can make an account. The admin there knows their stuff so I don’t think it’s broken
pump that complete address you’ve got there into the search box
I’ve had a similar issue trying to get to !printsf@lemmy.ml in jerboa. Haven’t tried online.
Gotta force federation for small and new communities by searching for it by the full URL, once it has been federated by one user it is there for anyone on that instance.
