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how long on average until a community created on one instance is viewable on others? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by Percy@lemmy.one to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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So I created midwest.social/c/projectzomboid and in trying to view it on lemmy.one/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social for the past two hours but it isn't showing up. My other community lemmy.one/c/lotrmemes@midwest.social shows up just fine. How long until the project Zomboid one is viewable?

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[–] veroxii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How would someone subscribe to your instance if they can't see it in the first place?

[–] jonah@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

They'd have to go to https://lemmy.one/search and type in https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

jonah explained how, but the why is often not well understood:

They're completely separate websites, just with the ability to forward content along to other sites if those other sites request it. The sites themselves are set up to only request content streams if a user has made a specific request for it, and the way that request system has been set up is through the search features.

So, you have to tell one site to please request content from this other page here, please (and then set me to follow it).