After the way Reddit treated devs & users they lost me, I think many others feel the same. Fediverse community is building nicely, once niche communities/magazines start populating there will be no going back

Has he bought Reddit yet?

I’m using new too. Today I even started a topic, didn’t do that very often on the old place!

Far as I know its for subscriptions on another instance, for example if you sign up on lemmy.world but subscribe to a community on sopuli.xyz. I’m using Liftoff app, the pending subscriptions seem to show if I wait a short time before refreshing my subscriptions page

Kiwi browser (with uBlock) Joplin (notes) Keepass2Android

Started off on kbin a few weeks ago but as good as it is, it’s in its infancy & currently without an api so as im impatient I checked out Lemmy. Chose an instance without content restrictions, blocking the least number of other instances & being blocked itself by the least number of other instances. No idea if that was the best choice but that’s how the dice landed.

I’m brand new here so apologies if this is wrong. I’m using Liftoff & was able to search for & find your post like this:

• From any post tap ⋮ menu (top right in Liftoff).
• Select Open in browser (I have Liftoff set to use its in app browser)
• ≡ menu (top right in Liftoff)
• Tap search
• Select Search = Posts, Instances =All, Sort type = New
• You can leave community as the default All or
  • Tap community & type ask
  • Wait for the instances to populate, then select lemmy.ml/asklemmy
  • ignore that it then reverts the instance back to All
• Creator = All
• Search = type search query here. I used the term “search commumity” then tap Search
• Your post showed up as the top result

Edit: An easier way to do it

• Tap search icon at the bottom of Liftoff
• For me the instance shows as lemmy.world & there’s no option to change this
• Type your search query in the search bar eg “search community”
• Your post shows near the top in results

Thanks for the replies. I’m using Liftoff rather than browser (I already have violentmonkey installed for various scripts so thanks for the heads up for that one).

It gets more confusing to me. Clicking the link https://lemmy.world/c/android@lemdro.id took me straight there & I could subscribe …but searching for that URL in Liftoff didn’t work. And searching for another lemdro.id community also returns nothing: https://lemmy.world/c/samsung@lemdro.id.

Logging in on PC browser & using Lemmy search returned no results. The only way I could subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/samsung@lemdro.id was to sign in to lemmy.world on PC then directly input that url in another tab & subscribe.

The communities state to use the following format from your home instance to search & subscribe example !apple@lemdro.id

Searching in this format using Liftoff or PC browser gives no results (search = Communities, All. Community = All. Search term = !android@lemdro.id). The only way I can do it is as above, going directly to the URL in a browser.

Frustrating as hell. I know the infrastructure is struggling under the influx of new users but the lack of working search & the absolute ball ache to subscribe will put off so many reddit refugees

Cheers. All other suggestions showing me the error of my ways are very welcome

Others seem to be having trouble too. Leaving this here as in case others stumble across it:

The only way ive found to force search/subscribe to work is to log into your lemmy account in a browser (desktop or phone). Open another tab then go directly to the desired instance URL open the sidebar & subscribe. You will then be able to open the community from your subscription page in your app.

The URL is in the format:

https://your_lemmy_ instance_here/c/community_name_here@instance_hosting_community_here

In my case to reach !plex@lemmy.ml it would be: https://lemmy.world/c/plex@lemmy.ml

Or !apple@lemdro.id would be https://lemmy.world/c/apple@lemdro.id