Hi. I’ve subscribed to several communities outside my instance already, but I’m having a problem where I can’t seem to repeat the process for certain communities.
For example, I wanted to go to /c/test on lemmy.ml. But going to lemmy.ml/c/test takes me outside of Beehaw, my home instance, so I can’t post or subscribe from there. So I checked how I could visit this community, and its URL is https://beehaw.org/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. I then tried going to https://beehaw.org/c/test@lemmy.ml, but that gives me an error page.
What do? I can’t find /c/test on the communities page, either.
Apologies if I’m being dumb.
You’re not being dumb, that sounds like how it ought to work to me!
What worked for me was to log in to my home instance, search for the whole URL for the community, and then, after getting no results from the search, change the type of the search to All. Sometimes I would change it to Communities and then to All. Eventually after a couple tries the link should show up in the results. Click it to browse to the community and then you can subscribe. It’s a bit cumbersome but it worked for me.
That delay is from your instance and the instance you searched for exchanging information and syncing its database. You can actually see this in action if you have the “all” tab on your instances homepage open while you do the search.