I noticed that at the list all communities page I see many communities from lemmy.ml, but not all of them.

The two I happened to notice were “covid” and “crypto”. I’m new to Lemmy and don’t know what would cause this. I found this earlier question but the answer implies at least there’s a way for a lemmy.ca user to subscribe to the community in question, and I can’t figure out how to do even that.

I tried going directly to https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] but I’m taken to a page that says “Couldn’t find community.”.

  • Kinetix
    3•3 years ago

    Huh, this is an area that the documentation seems to be pretty lacking in. When a community isn’t federated, you can get the instance to begin pulling in a community by doing a search for “!community@instance”. So, I think you were close, but you were only asking for a community that didn’t exist here yet.

    I searched for [email protected] and it’s subscribable now.

    Feel free to play around with that.

    • @falsifianOP
      2•3 years ago

      Thank you for the incantation! I’m able to subscribe to things now.

      • Kinetix
        1•3 years ago

        You’re welcome!

    • Kinetix
      1•3 years ago

      All instances? Just lemmy.ca? I see you’re posting from lemmy.ml, so you’d have to describe your situation a little more. Maybe even in a new post relating to the issue, rather than a comment in a post relating to something else entirely.

    • Kinetix
      1•3 years ago

      Also, ensure you’re updated to lemmur 0.6.0 - I had to uninstall it in F-Droid (at 0.5.0) before 0.6.0 would show up. No idea what the deal was there.