I just joined the NZ lemmy here, because Lemmy.world was slow. This instance is much faster for me, but when searching for communities, many that I was subscribed to with my lemmyworld account didn’t show in the search results.

I fixed this by manually finding it in the address bar, like this:

https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected]

And this will work for all communities, just replacing the appropriate parts:

https://lemmy.nz/c/[communityname]@[instancename]

Then you can subscribe and it will show in your ‘Subscribed to communities’ on the main page. (sometimes I have to refresh for all to show up).

This might be a known issue at the moment, but I’ve only been on Lemmy for like 3 days so idk

  • NoRamyunForYouEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m having a bit of difficulty with this.

    Does it mean I need to know exactly where a community is hosted to be able to search it up?

    I.e., I now know there is an NBA community on Lemmy.world, but when I was searching for “nba” communities, it wasn’t coming up?

    • DaveMAEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hmm, when I go to the search, type NBA, choose “communities” in the filter for what to search for, then hit search, I get two communities. One is the one I think you’re looking for, https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected]

      • NoRamyunForYouEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Actually I think I was mistaken. I think I was a bit thrown off by the fact that the NBA community has 2 subscribers, and so I dismissed it.

        • DaveMAEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          It’s certainly confusing! It’s saying that there are two subscribers from lemmy.nz. If you go to the original URL at https://lemmy.world/c/nba then you’ll see 2,000 subscribers.

          If you look at the average daily users on https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected] you’ll see this is higher, but you’ll also see it’s not as high as visiting the original URL at lemmy.world. I have no idea why it’s all over the place but Lemmy is still young so eventually we should see things like this tidied up.

          As someone else has mentioned, often it’s easiest to use a third party community browser such as this one: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=NBA

          That will show you the NBA community. At the top right of the page, click the house to set your home instance. Enter “lemmy.nz”. Now the links to the communities will take you to the lemmy.nz page where you can subscribe.

          • benji1304English
            2·
            1 year ago

            This is so helpful.

            I’ve set my home community to lemmy.nz but when I open a community, I still cannot subscribe?

            edit: If i click Create Post, then go back the Subscribe link now works and I get Subscribe Pending

            • DaveMAEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Specifically with lemmy.ml, a lot of people from many instances are having trouble with pending subscribe requests.

              I think it’s because lemmy.ml is having trouble with so many users, the site is overloaded. You may just need to wait for it to eventually resolve.

          • NoRamyunForYouEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Interesting. Thank you for clearing that up!

            Ahh that community browser is so helpful. Really makes it a lot easier :)

            Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Really appreciate the help in getting started out.

            • DaveMAEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              You’re welcome! I literally just learnt about the home instance setting while writing the comment to you, so really it should be me thanking you 😆