I’m told you enter the full URL into the search function, but that doesn’t work. Is that normal or an exodus-related issue? I’d like to look at Kbin stuff.

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Unfortunately, kbin instances are unavailable via Lemmy right now due to hosting problems on kbin’s side of the equation (see Kbin Codeberg #101). This will probably be fixed soon, so keep an eye on that issue for progress.

    Even if it were working, however, there’s actually something of a required ritual that you’ll need to go through when subscribing to an external community which your instance is not already federated to (i.e.: communities where nobody on SDF is currently subscribed). Here are the steps you’ll need to follow:

    1. In the community search, paste in the following pattern: !community@instance.domain (e.g.: !technology@beehaw.org)
    2. Press [Enter], wait for the search to finish (it’s normal to see no results)
    3. Wait a few minutes
    4. Refresh the search page and search for the common name this time (e.g.: “Technology”)
    5. The community should appear and be available for subscription now

    FWIW: There are plans to improve this unintuitive workflow in the future (see Lemmy Backend Github #2951).

    If these steps don’t work, it’s possible that the community may simply be too new. You’ll sometimes need to wait an hour or so after a community has been created for it to start being available on external instances.

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      ah, thank you for the kbin bug link!

      I was going crazy trying to search for kbin ‘magazines’ and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working

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      Yup, if I understand you correctly @chaorace explained the actual process in what is now the top reply.

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    I’ve seen chatter on Mastodon that kbin will view lemmy communities, but lemmy doesn’t correctly view kbin magazines. I don’t know if it’s accurate or not. I have been able to join lemmy communities on other servers, however.

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    Typically when I search for a full URL, there are no hits. But then I reload the search results page, and find the community I was looking for, and see that the instance has been added.