Hi! Are there any criteria in place as to how this instance and its accounts federate with others? For instance, there are a few communities on feddit.de which I'd like to subscribe to, but they are not listed here, am I doing something wrong?
Hi! Are there any criteria in place as to how this instance and its accounts federate with others? For instance, there are a few communities on feddit.de which I'd like to subscribe to, but they are not listed here, am I doing something wrong?
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Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 3y
Hey! So, if you want to subscribe to an instance that nobody on your instance has subscribed to before, what you need to do is the following:
1 Grab the full URL (for example, https://feddit.de/c/fragfeddit)
2 Go to the Communities page
3 Search for that URL
4 Switch all search options to "All" (even "Communities")
5 Wait 5-10 seconds for your instance to pull in the community
6 Click through and subscribe!
Now all posts from that community will be pulled in from now on. I know this is a little cumbersome, hopefully the discoverability and subscribing to new communities gets easier after devs have time to work on it post-WebHook removal.
u_tamtam@programming.dev · 9 pts · 3y
Damn… it's clear now! I was poking at things in the Communities search screen, trying URL, Communities, but apparently "All" is what I needed. Thanks a lot :)
Buttons@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Are you referring to Lemmy devs or the instance devs / administrators (or something else)?
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
I'm referring to the fact that the Lemmy devs are trying to fix some pretty major issues (WebHooks), and don't really have time for anything else (although there are now a few more contributors). Once they're done with that, they'll have time to work on other issues.
Xgamer4@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Do you have a link or anything that goes into details on this? I'm curious to read about what's going on with lemmy.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
I've been following the Matrix chat and the Github issues page. There's a lot of chatter and work going on, but between that and the pull requests, you can get a pretty solid idea of what's going on.