• Lodion 🇦🇺MAEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Viewing communities from other instances is a bit… unintuitive currently in Lemmy. For a remote community to be accessible, someone first needs to search for it.

    Either as the full URL:
    https://midwest.social/c/cats

    or the search string:
    !cats@midwest.social

    I’ve just searched for that community by URL now, and it is showing for me on aussie.zone:

    Another thing to note, is that posts/comments are only synced once someone has subscribed. So you won’t see most older content. You can “pull” it to aussie zone by searching for full post/comment by URL.

    • cuppaconcreteOPEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Ahhh gotchya, thanks heaps!

      EDIT: It is a bit janky, especially since “pulling” (searching by URL or channel ID) doesn’t actually give any results and you have to plain text search for the channel again afterwards. I’m not complaining though, mainly noting this quirk here in case someone in future is searching for help on this issue too.

      • Lodion 🇦🇺MAEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I’ve not had much luck with federated access to much of anything except for lemmy/kbin.

    • JckwtyEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      For a remote community to be accessible, someone first needs to search for it

      Is this also how an instance’s ‘All’ page is populated (only by posts from communities that members have visited or subscribed to)?

      • Lodion 🇦🇺MAEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Only by communities someone else has already searched for. Though if nobody is subscribed, they won’t receive new posts/comments from the home instance.