EDIT: Solved! Feel free to comment/message me if you’re having the same issue and I’ll be happy to help.

Supposedly I can subscribe to stuff from *fediverse accounts on other instances, in fact it’s one of the main selling points of the fediverse, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how.

"You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: "

Except nothing ever shows up in any search, either in community searches or the top search bar. It doesn’t even look like it’s trying to search. I also can’t find a place to just paste what specific instance sub I want to sub to.

Does this just not work or am I missing something obvious?

EDIT: Here’s a screenshot https://imgur.com/04FfhiC

EDIT2: I DID IT! So my error was following the instructions to “paste the following into the search engine of your instance” !syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml. What I ACTUALLY needed to do was just search for syncforlemmy in ‘All’.

Also, I can just use the URL field to navigate to a page that has a subscribe button, like this: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml I still have no clue what !syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml does and why I’m instructed to use it 🤷

  • DreamGryphon@veganism.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    @WhiteTiger

    Hm, did you make sure that you are actually pasting it into the search bar when you are logged in to your account on lemmy.world, and not on the page where it sais you have no account?
    I don’t have a Lemmy account but I can find your post there from my Mastodon search bar, so at least some parts of it are connected. .;

      • peereboominc@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        For me, the whole !name@server never works somehow. What does work for me is searching for the name of the community. Like syncforlemmy or asklemmy.

        Sometimes the community has never been subscribed from your server. Then you should search for the full link before searching by name. Full link is something like https://lemmy.world/c/contagiouslaughter@sh.itjust.works. Searching for the full link will trigger the sync process to your instance.

        • WhiteTiger@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Awesome advice, thank you very much! I figured there had to be a way to ‘brute force it’ as your second paragraph explains.