[Solution] What helped the most: Searching for full external URL. Don’t search for ‘Communities’, search for ‘All’. Example URL: https://instance.com/c/communityname Search for this, wait a couple of seconds, search again.
Hello, I just registered on lemm.ee today and tried to import my subscriptions. I know these communities exist, but they don’t show up when I’m trying to visit them through lemm.ee.
Some examples:
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!geopolitics%40kbin.social/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!nachrichten%40discuss.tchncs.de/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!nasa%40lemmy.ml/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
- https://lemm.ee/search/q/!science%40lemmy.glasgow.social/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
lemm.ee is federated with all of them. I also checked the other side (except for kbin, don’t know where to find that information on kbin). lemmy.ml and discuss.tchncs.de are federated with us. I could subscribe to some other communities hosted on these instances. https://lemmy.glasgow.social/instances might be an exception, I never saw an instance page like that.
Subscribing generally works, I successfully subscribed to about 230 communities from various instances.
Most of the 82 communities from my wishlist are probably from instances which are federated in both directions. I tried reloading the search, switching between ‘Community’ and ‘All’, to no avail.
Any ideas what might be wrong, what I could do?
For me, the most reliable option seems to be to search for the full URL of the community on its instance (so rather than !commityname@instance.com, I would search for https://instance.com/c/communityname)
Indeed, this worked for almost all items, and the others, I dropped. Thanks!
Note to others: Beware when using this for kbin links. Then, you need to use /m/ (magazines), not /c/. It also did not work for me when searching for ‘Communities’ (top left most drop down), I had to search for ‘All’.
I know this has been pretty much resolved now but just in case anyone else has issues with this and comes across this post. The most reliable way I’ve found to search for communities that don’t show up initially (due to being the first person subscribing from this instance) is:
Click the spy glass at the top right and search for the full url e.g. https://kbin.social/m/magazinename or https://lemmy.world/c/communityname. It may not look like it’s doing anything. Hit search again and then go back to the communities page and just search for the community or magazine name. It should now show. It possibly won’t show any content yet if you are the first person from your instance to subscribe to it.
This is the way how it works. If it does not work directly, wait some time. The servers can be overloaded so the sync might not be able to fetch instantly.