It works fine if I am using a lemmy.world based account, but for other instances it isn’t working. It is not just for me either, other users are reporting the same thing. What can I do to fix this?

https://lemmy.world/c/juggling

  • PriorProject@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    New communities don’t automatically federate. Someone who is logged into the instance has to interact with them to cause their instance to discover the new community.

    1. Someone needs to search for the community in a specific way for the community itself to be discovered.
    2. Someone needs to subscribe for posts/comments to get federated.

    See https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827 for more details.

    But your community will show up on lemmyverse.net, and will show up for people on your instance. Beyond that you have to advertise it in new-community communities and in juggling adjacent communities where interested folks might hang out.

    • lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      See the other message I have written - you should always recommend search. The URL only works if someone has already searched for that community. If you’re on a big instance, that’s almost always true, but on a smaller instance it often isn’t.

      • lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        The above advice isn’t perfect - in general, use Search first.

        Until the first person searches for a community on your instance, your instance doesn’t know about it and the URL won’t work. Searching (usually using the !community@instance.com form) should always work.

        Equally, your instance doesn’t start pulling data on a community (messages etc.) until someone subscribes to it, and then when subscribed it will sometimes take a a few hours to get it all (it should immediately start getting new posts and comments).