I am not sure why? In the app, all communities that are federated to my server are visible when searhching. On desktop, ad in the app, all you have to do is select "all" instead of "local" or "subscribed" and then just search. Half the communities I am subbed in are not from my own instance, for example.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Thank you! The search icon was so small on lemm.ee that I didn't notice. It actually works much better! You're a saviour!
How do I properly close this thread? Do I have to? Can I mark it as solved somehow?
I think you can edit the title. No rules here, but a simple [solved] should do. Also you are welcome, we are all figuring this out!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that search only exposes the communities that at least one of the servers members is currently subscribed to. It is not a list of all possible communities. This works okay if your server has a lot of members because it will likely surface the main popular communities, but it's misleading that it's all communities and someone had to do it the hard way like OP said the first time around.
On the top of lemm.ee website there is a button "Communities". Select "All" instead of "Local" and you can search for any community.
Check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827
- If anyone else on your instance has already subbed, you can "just" visit /communities/ on the instance where your account is and click subscribe.
- If you're the first to discover this sub, it's an annoying process. The steps I'm used to (and that are described in the post above) are different than what you described. I'm not sure how much easier they are, but they're what I recommend and have found easiest among approaches I've tested.
if there was kind a data export feature. maybe we could export list of subscription list then we can import to other instance. it could be like mastodon migration.
Do you mean like when creating another account on a different instance?
It's easier to just type/paste in the address of the community on the search page of your instance in the [!name@instan.ce](/c/name@instan.ce) format.
You can then click the result and just hit subscribe.
Would be nice if Jerboa and the web UI just translated links in that format so that theyd just open from your instance and let you sub instantly.
ATM they just open in the browser and display from the hosting instance, preventing an easy sub.
The link doesn't even need to be in that format. Simply copying the link from the fediverse button (the rainbow Pentagon) and pasting that in your instances search will bring it up. It should only be a 3 step process. Although I still feel that can be a little clunky.
For discovery I browse the community list of whichever instance I'm viewing and then link it back to my home instance. I just wish I knew of a way to view the list of communities from an instance directly from my home instance. (Other than selecting the All filter from my home instance community list)
When I add [!privacy@lemmy.ml](/c/privacy@lemmy.ml) into my search field, it doesn't show anything - in fact, it ends up telling me that there are no results. I have to then go into the Communities tab again, and hope it shows up there.
I can see it doing work as I watch the logs. But this is really a little weird/frustrating. I hope this sees improvement eventually! =)
I actually still don't understand what exclamation mark does.
EDIT: I guess the goal for you would be to get to this page:
Good call! That said, I am still going to have to copy-paste a lot of community handles... Oh well, it works for now, I guess.
Thanks for the idea!
if you search for the actual URL it will show up in the search, as long as the type filter is set to All instead of Communities