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.

  • @danchez1@lemmy.ml
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    31 year ago

    Where’s the magnifying glass? I’m very new here and all of this is pretty confusing. Can I get an ELI5? I was able to sign up and I’m not using the Jerboa app on Android and I don’t see a magnifying glass anywhere.

    • Garrathian
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      11 year ago

      You should see it on the top right on the page, i take a screenshot if that doesn’t help

      • warmblood
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        11 year ago

        New and also very inexperienced- I tried searching for !totk@lemmy.ml but am getting no results. Can someone explain to me like I’m an idiot 😂

        • lixus98
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          1 year ago

          What you want to do is search for @totk@lemmy.ml, basically just replacing the exclamation mark (!) for the @ symbol.
          Why? Because kbin uses the @ symbol and Lemmy uses the ! symbol for the communities.

          Edit: I’m working in an extension for chrome and firefox it will basically convert the lemmy format !communityname@instance.domain to the kbin format so you just need to click on it.