Yet another lemmy instance proudly hosted in Montreal, Canada. Still need to get a icon created, if there are any designers here who would like to contribute please feel free to post!

  • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Hey everyone!

    Excited to join the Lemmy train, while not my first federated experience (been used and working on federated platforms for quite a while) I’m excited for a more reddit-like one as that’s the kind of social network which seems to gel with me best. Thanks for setting this up!

    I’ve noticed that some communities from other instances don’t seem easily accessible. For example the nintendo community on lemmy.ml. I think it should be available at https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] but that just 404s. Of course this could be user error, let me know if I’m using it wrong :)

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      1 year ago

      Hey! So, communities aren’t pulled in until at least 1 person on this server is subscribed to it. What you need to do is go to Communities at the top, search for the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/nintendo), switch the search from “Communities” to “All”, then wait ~10 seconds or so for it to pull in the community. Then just follow the link and hit the “Subscribe” button on the right.

      Once that happens, that link (https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]) will work for everyone.

      It would explode every Lemmy server if they pulled in all communities from every other server all the time, even if nobody cared.