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)
I don’t think so, you should be able to subscribe to anything from https://programming.dev/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
There are quite a few communities on other servers that don’t show up on the listing. I’m not sure if it’s just an issue where things aren’t syncing well because of server load? I remember similar issues with mastodon during some of the exodus spikes from the birdsite.
You have to copy and paste the community url you want for it to find it. Idk why it works that way. Probably to reduce load.
It’s not working for me unless I switch the dropdown from Communities to All. Maybe a bug?
Sorry for the late response. I think that’s how it has to work, but it’s super weird. We need to add some proper directions in how to subscribe to other communities lol