Not sure if this is the best place to post, but I’m trying to figure Lemmy out. Suppose I want to subscribe to !news@beehaw.org using this account… how do I do that?
When I go to the “communities” tab and search for “news”… doesn’t show up there. I can search for “technology” and find results for !technology@beehaw.org. I can go to a URL on this domain for that community; but plopping the word “news” instead of “technology” in that URL gives me a 404.
Do the admins of this instance have to whitelist specific other communities before people here can subscribe to them? Have they done that with “technology” but not “news”? (I understand if that’s the case. Probably want to keep programmers.dev on topic. Just trying to figure out how lemmy works)
Try putting the full source url on the search bar on your instance
https://beehaw.org/c/news
It should show up. Sometimes I’ll have to search it multiple times, but doing that should index it. Then subscribing should make it available for others on the instance.
If however your instances aren’t federated with each other, this likely won’t work.
I had trouble with the federation at the start so this instance is Open Federation so we currently federate with anything. Don’t make me regret that decision lol.