My main instance is sopuli.xyz, but I often explore lemmy.ml for communities to follow since most of them are there. The problem with this is that in the app there’s no option to subscribe to a community from another instance, or I haven’t found it, at least.
Is there a way to do this?
Are you browsing lemmy.ml communities as federated with sopuli.xyz or browsing them directly from lemmy.ml? If you open this community in the context of sopuli.xyz you can subscribe to it no problem.
This can get confusing, but the idea is that if you’re browsing the communities in the context of lemmy.ml instead of sopuli.xyz as federated communities, lemmur will be using your lemmy.ml account. Because while yes, the communities are federated and host the same content, they are in theory separate.
We have a few ideas how to make it less confusing, like showing your current context or adding buttons like “view in context of another instance”.
I hope this helps :)
But what about communities that have not been federated yet? Because that’s why I browse lemmy.ml, a lot of the communities there haven’t got to here. A “view in context of another instance” button would be great to have for this kind of thing
In that case you have to put the community url into the search box of your instance. Then it will get fetched.
@shilangyu@lemmy.ml Maybe we should make a separate api endpoint for this?
Are you sure that works?
Actually I noticed that search has a Url option but it is filtered out in lemmy-ui. Would this Url option work like you described?
Your URL is from a remote community, in the format
/community/123. For fetching a community you need its activitypub ID, which is the same as its local URL on the original instance (/c/name).This works for the web page, but not for Lemmur. In Lemmur it just stays loading forever and never shows any results
If you provide me some steps how to reproduce your problem I will be happy to help
Go to the search uh, tab? Idk what they’re called, and search for a non-local instance that has not been federated using !this@for.mat
It simply won’t stop loading, without ever showing any results
Isn’t federation on the instance level? So all communities should be visible from sopuli.xyz?
Sorry, I don’t understand the question
Never mind, that only works in the web UI but not Lemmur. But seems like something Lemmur should be able to do.
In the search, you must say “!community@lemmy.ml”. It may take a few seconds but the community will be searchable next time you search and be federated.