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What am I doing wrong when trying to see my community from another instance? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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https://lemmy.ml/c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca doesn’t work, but that form of syntax seems to work for other communities.

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[-] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

For the community to show up on an instance, it needs to have been viewed by at least one person from that instance. (You need to be logged in for this to count).

I went to https://lemmy.one/c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca with my alt on that instance. Now you should be able to see it from there, even if you aren't logged in.

Also, I think for posts to be federated properly there needs to be at least one subscriber from the instance (just visiting isn't enough). I'm not sure about that tho.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 1 year ago

You have to have at least one user on an instance subscribed to a community, or else it will just sit there all stale..

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Unfortunate how lemmy seems geared to work for the most popular things and fail at the margins, when the margins may deserve our love more.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 1 year ago

Well yes and no, I mean barring the mega big ones, everyone on the instance will bring in special things they like to the "All" stream right?

Maybe "everything" from the big instances drowns away the smaller things though...

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

But there seem to be all of these hurdles even to get into the All stream, where I had figured we'd all be there automatically.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the language choice had me for a while. You have to use the "undefined", but Also English and other languages!

Then have users on your instance subbing to communities for them to show up on your instances "All".

I guess we'll figure it all out eventually (especially software wise) but today it's a bit of manual labour and definitely some luck!

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You have to use the “undefined”, but Also English and other languages!

And I didn’t know this either. I had thought having "undefined" at all was supposed to break things somehow.

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

(You need to be logged in for this to count)

Oh...!

This whole visibility thing is a serious problem, even though everyone seems to want us to think of it as normal and acceptable. Doing anything on a small instance becomes a bad idea.

[-] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah discovery is kinda terrible. Luckily there's tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities and https://lemmyverse.net/kbin/magazines, but something like that definitely needs to be built into Lemmy itself.

To get the community started you can put it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, sub.rehab if there's a counterpart on reddit, and maybe advertise it in any relevant places. After you get just one subscriber from an instance everyone there will be able to see it in search and the all tab.

[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This whole visibility thing is a serious problem

Yes. I have been preaching that since I first started using lemmy in June. Every time I bring it up my comment is downvoted to oblivion. The way it currently works is borderline abusive to new users of lemmy.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

This post says 3 comments, but I still only see the @NicoCharrua reply and my reply to them upon reloading.

I often see where a post is supposed to have a reply or two, but I open it and there are none. Is this another visibility problem? I’m using the ordinary web interface.

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ah! I don’t have show bot accounts. It would be much less confusing if it said that a bot comment was hidden.

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