I have been trying to subscribe to lemmy.ml/c/apple using my account on lemmy.ca, however I get a 404 error when I visit lemmy.ca/c/apple@lemmy.ml
Other communities work fine and I’m able to subscribe. Just curious what could be the issue. Do I need to wait for the community to be made “available” on lemmy.ca?
You need to use the search function in the UI here https://lemmy.ca/search, not type the URL directly in your browser.
I just this for you and now the link works properly.Just have in mind the first time you search for a community it might take a few seconds and a few refreshes to actually see it.
Thank you! This worked for me 🙂
can you try searching for http://lemmy.ml/c/apple in the search field? Maybe your server just hasn’t looked this community up yet. I don’t think visiting http://lemmy.ca/c/apple@lemmy.ml triggers this.
Yup that was indeed the case. Looks like the server didn’t know about that community. Doing a search worked and I’ve successfully subscribed to it
awesome!
Yup, works perfectly now. Thank you
check out this post I made yesterday where I have a same/similar problem https://lemmy.one/post/19823
Thank you, searching for the full community URL “https://lemmy.ml/c/apple” here “https://lemmy.ca/search” helped the server discover the community and I was able to subscribe
I feel like there needs to be a pinned guide at the top of this instance explaining all of this stuff to new users.
If you’re the first person on your instance to subscribe to a Community on a different instance, you need to make your instance discover the other community.
You can paste the URL or !apple@lemmy.lm in the search field on lemmy.ca, then you should be able to find it on lemmy.ca -> Communities
But looks it doesn’t always work for all communities. I just tried it on reddthat.com. It worked for !apple@lemmy.ml, !askmidwest@midwest.social and !technology@midwest.social, but not for !projectzomboid@midwest.social
