How do I search for communities outside Lemmy.world from Lemmy.world from iOS?
For example, I was told to search for !catsubs@kbin.social from Lemmy.world in order for Lemmy to fetch it, but searching that using Lemmy search doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong?
I've found that I've had best success for bin magazines by searching for the entire URL, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/catsubs
That being said, your !catsubs@kbin.social link worked just fine when I clicked it from my own instance.
Edit: Realized your home is lemmy.world. I believe the !catsubs@kbin.social link format may not work from there as they're still on 17.4, waiting fro 18.1 release rather than upgrading to 18.0. So, my positive experience may not mirror your own.
Thanks for this, I was trying to subscribe using the URL formatted the other way and it wasn't working.
Does Lemmy use /C/ and Kbin /m/ for it's designation of communities?
Yes. C for community, M for magazine.
Thank you, if it’s a matter of Lemmy.world not being updated yet then that makes sense. Your link works but pressing “subscribe” does not (it prompts me to login to KBin). Sounds like I just need to wait it out for the update. Thank you!
Try this link: https://lemmy.world/c/catsubs@kbin.social
If you have the name of the sub and the name of the instance, do your instance the/c/ then the sub name.
For your example it would be lemmy.world/c/catsubs@kbin.social
Then you can subscribe to it from your lemmy.world username.
When searching for a community by URL use the website only. No apps currently support it yet I think.
Edit: you can also just do it in the URL like this
Thank you. Search by URL still doesn’t work in browser or in Limbo BUT the link you posted works when I tap on it
i am very new round here. very much yet to understand.
your https link worked for me.
this is very strange.
It's actually pretty straight forward once someone takes the time to explain it. I'll try.
These ! Links are supposed to be universal I think. !futurama@lemmy.world
Then there's the long URL, https://lemmy.ml/c/futurama@lemmy.world
First you start with your instance then /c/ just like Reddit did with r/ it means you're looking for a community, then an @ to target another instance.
In this example I started at lemmy.ml told it I was looking for a community, then told it where the that community lives in this case lemmy.world
For kbin use the whole url "https://kbin.social/m/catsubs" in the search function.
Lemmy is still going through some growing pains as feature bugs are ironed out following the massive influx of users. I believe search is one of the features that is getting attention. Hopefully you'll find improvements once Lemmy.world updates to 18 (whenever captcha gets added back in)
Are you using it in the browser or one of the apps in TestFlight? Sometimes you need to search to initiate the request and try again a minute later after lemmy.world has had a chance to fetch it
Tried in browser and one of the apps in TestFlight (limbo). Those didn’t work but someone posted a link here in the comments that actually did work! :)