PSA: if a remote community hasn't been fetched by your instance yet, you need to search for it (yiffit.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "!communityname@instance.domain"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

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[-] danchez1@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Where's the magnifying glass? I'm very new here and all of this is pretty confusing. Can I get an ELI5? I was able to sign up and I'm not using the Jerboa app on Android and I don't see a magnifying glass anywhere.

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

Bottom bar. The list icon next to the home icon let's you search on Jerboa.

[-] Garrathian@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

You should see it on the top right on the page, i take a screenshot if that doesn't help

[-] warmblood@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

New and also very inexperienced- I tried searching for !totk@lemmy.ml but am getting no results. Can someone explain to me like I’m an idiot 😂

[-] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What you want to do is search for @totk@lemmy.ml, basically just replacing the exclamation mark (!) for the @ symbol.
Why? Because kbin uses the @ symbol and Lemmy uses the ! symbol for the communities.

Edit: I'm working in an extension for chrome and firefox, it will basically convert the lemmy format [!communityname@instance.domain](/c/communityname@instance.domain) to the kbin format so you just need to click on it.

[-] mbp@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not currently using kbin but this is awesome

[-] Ozymandias_KoK@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Did the same for !sysadmin@lemmy.ml and a few others. This fediverse thing is kinda harder than it needs to be.

[-] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, searching for comms which your server doesn't know yet, is not yet possible in Jerboa. But things are improving quickly.

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