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    1 year ago

    If an instance has not yet discovered a community on another instance, you have to use the search function to find it. I just did a search for “[email protected]” it showed up, and I clicked on the link. Now lemmy.ml knows about this community and the original link won’t 404.

    It would be cool if we got a more useful message instead of a 404 though.

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      1 year ago

      >Thanks, I had no idea. I did try the search function but I didn’t use the “!”, so that was probably the problem.

      Nevermind, this does not work every time it seems. Searching for [email protected] gives me 0 results. Thankfully I can reach it via lemmy.ml/c/[email protected].

      Edit: And yes, I am searching all communities, not just local.

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      Thanks, I had no idea. I did try the search function but I didn’t use the “!”, so that was probably the problem.