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PSA: if a remote community hasn't been fetched by your instance yet, you need to search for it (yiffit.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "!communityname@instance.domain"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

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[–] lixus98@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ernest could this work on kbin as well?

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

AFAIK, it does. But the url structure is slightly different. Instead of
https://kbin.social/c/memes@lemmy.ml
It would be https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml with an “m” instead of a “c”.

I’m still learning, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be awesome for it to convert https://lemmy.ml/c/memes into https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml automatically.

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For real. I feel like I recall a browser extension doing something similar for Mastodon. But I don’t have the coding knowledge to adapt that to this use case.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Interesting, I might look into modifying the extension for it to work with kbin

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sweet! I would be interested, and might be able to help test. Let me know if something comes of it.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Nice, I got it working with this type of mention !communityname@instance.domain. But I want to see if I can convert the link form too, I will probably make a post once is done.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So I managed to get the extension to an usable state.
It adds that little kbin icon to the beginning of the url or mention, if you click that icon you will go to the kbin link of that community. It works for all websites so if you are browsing on a lemmy site it should work there too.
I am currently working on testing it and publishing it to the chrome and firefox stores.