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?

  • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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    33 years ago

    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?

    • shilangyu (lemmur)M
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      23 years ago

      In that case you have to put the community url into the search box of your instance. Then it will get fetched.

      Are you sure that works?

      @shilangyu@lemmy.ml Maybe we should make a separate api endpoint for this?

      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?

      • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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        23 years ago

        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).

    • Katie AmpersandOP
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      23 years ago

      This works for the web page, but not for Lemmur. In Lemmur it just stays loading forever and never shows any results

        • Katie AmpersandOP
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          23 years ago

          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