I’ve tried solutions explained here and here. I am trying to subscribe to some communities on the TTRPG Network. Am I missing something?

    • JackbyDevOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Using the manual URL worked best I think. The other approach (!community@instance) never seemed to load.

      I do have a follow up question though, why do these posts look so different on each instance? Do we only get new content going forward I suppose? The post itself is from before I subscribed so old posts seem to come in, I guess maybe not old comments though?

      1. https://programming.dev/post/162678
      2. https://ttrpg.network/post/707
      • AtegonMA
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah theres some shenanigans with the federation. Dont know what exactly causes it but probably something with other servers not federating fully with us yet due to not much interact between the two instances

    • JackbyDevOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Do you have any insight into the server’s performance? I was getting some errors around the same time before I tried. Maybe it was just lag. That’s basically what I tried (I think, maybe I got a small detail wrong). I’ll try later and see.

      • AtegonMA
        3·
        2 years ago

        The server was getting hit by a ddos attack earlier if you were getting 404s when trying to use programming.dev

        Its running fine now though

  • koreth@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 years ago

    One thing that wasn’t obvious to me initially when I started searching for !community@instance is that the search results are fetched asynchronously. So you might see “no search results” and think it failed, but if you let it sit there a bit, the results will often appear. Hitting the “Next” button sometimes helped too.

    • JackbyDevOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Okay, and the instance was very flaky earlier today, maybe that’s why. I’ll try later and see.

  • rustic_raven
    1·
    2 years ago

    I was having a ton of difficulty with this initially following the documented steps and was getting a “404 community not found” issue for something I knew was on lemmy.world.

    Convoluted so if anyone knows a better way please share (using mobile):

    1. Tap the hamburger from your home server
    2. Tap Communities
    3. Enter minimally three characters and hit search (this should take you to a more robust search page)
    4. Change the Communities drop down to All
    5. Paste the url for the desired community and tap Search
    6. Tap the community
    7. Tap the sidebar and Subscribe

    Don’t know why it doesn’t work the normal way or when the URL option is used. Only All worked for me.

  • treagod@feddit.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    The second link contains the probably the answer. If you did everything right with the search and your desired community still does not show up it might be because your instance defederated the other instance