• dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 months ago

    how do I interact with a community I cannot connect to? Would I need to manipulate the URL in order to “access” it, although this gives the error page not found, of course. (Not the best method of poking another community.)

    But that’s interesting that it takes some time to sync or whatever. Unfortunately, this immediately creates the illusion that some communities don’t exist, and causes people to create a double community. This just happened to me. I created c/whatstheword on my instance…

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      6 months ago

      how do I interact with a community I cannot connect to?

      are you using the website, or an app? i can see the community, but not the posts (presumably because they aren’t synced) (forgot i have lemmy.world blocked).

      do you not see the community landing page at all? is there no ‘subscribe’ button? subscribing is the best way to trigger the sync job; i could try doing it for you, but i want to see if it’s possible for you to do it first.

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          6 months ago

          i don’t know about lemdroid. federation could be backlogged for aforementioned reasons.

          the link you gave works fine for me in Firefox: clicking, dragging or pasting. the 404 likely indicates that lemdroid hasn’t discovered that community yet; probably because it’s still waiting to finish asking lemmy.world about it.

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          6 months ago

          whoops, i forgot i have lemmy.world blocked. i don’t see comments or posts from that instance.

          still tho, i wasn’t getting the undiscovered 404 on dbzer0.