There are a couple of communities I’ve come across on online lists / forums that I’d like to join, but they aren’t showing up on a search despite the usual workarounds. I suspect they might just be hosted on instances we aren’t currently federated with, but is there a way to check this so I know if this is the case or if it’s due to a bug?
bottom of any page on your instance “Instances”
Duh-doy! Thank you @manitcor
I’m getting too old for this steep a learning curve - I was so sure I’d retire at Reddit!
no worries, a lot to learn quickly for sure! you might find this helpful: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
Thanks again!
If you are using the format
!community@instanceit should trigger a instance Federation if we are not already federated and then sync the community.
Which communities were you having trouble with?I can’t remember off the top of my head, I was working my way through the subreddit rehab list. That’s interesting though thank you
I was actually surprised to find out that we’re federated with exploding-heads. Most instances will just immediately defederate from them.
Checkout: https://reddthat.com/comment/408712 for my/our view on it.
Honestly, the biggest problems are not those “heated” instances (currently) it’s random instances that get new users signing up and then those users end up spamming random communities with spam.
I then have to deal with all the reports from them.
