I think an important functionality would be able to search with a prefixed exclamation mark to be able to specify an unfederated community, such as !community@lemmyinstance.com

Im still learning the ropes here but I think that’s an important thing to be able to do from wefwef?

  • fer0nEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Is that what the exclamation mark means? I thought that’s just a community prefix. Also what does unfederated mean, not accessible from other instances?

    Edit: seems to just be a prefix for communities, so I guess it means nothing other than making it clearer that it’s a Lemmy community?

    • UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It also prevents your e-mail client from starting up, as your OS will probably consider the community address an e-mail address if it doesn’t start with an exclamation mark.

    • noogie@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Basically I made a community on lemmy.fmhy.ml and then searched for it on a different instance and it wasn’t coming up, and apparently you have to search !community@instance and subscribe and only then will the community be searchable/accessible from the other instance.

      • fer0nEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe Lemmy was just having issues. I couldn’t find the iOS shortcuts community on lemmy.world before and then it suddenly worked. Both times I was just searching for the name.