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my main account on lemmy is on lemmy.ml but to help lessen the load on that instance i decided to use this one as my main account. However, when i go and search for my subscribed communities that are on lemmy.ml they aren't found. Are we defederated from lemmy.ml or am I missing something?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's possible nobody on your instance has requested this content yet. I don't recall the steps to do this but hopefully someone will be along with the answer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think it was

!communityname@instancename

So like

[email protected]

At least that worked for me, you might need to wait a little while and/or try two three times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the bottom right of every page, you can click on the "Instances" button (or just go to https://lemmy.zip/instances) to see what instances your site is federated with/is defederated from. lemmy.ml is under linked, so lemmy.zip is federating with them.

What you may be running into is that on this smaller instance, you may need to discover the communities:

These previous ways [searching for instances] will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover. You can find more communities by browsing different Lemmy instances, or using the Lemmy Community Browser. When you found a community that you want to follow, enter its URL (e.g. https://feddit.de/c/main) or the identifier (e.g. [email protected]) into the search field of your own Lemmy instance. Lemmy will then fetch the community from its original instance, and allow you to interact with it. The same method also works to fetch users, posts or comments from other instances.

(from the join-lemmy docs)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Each account is separate. You have to start over.

Also, you left the 2nd largest Instance for the 1st largest one. I think anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OP is posting from lemmy.zip. I'm guessing it's smaller.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gah, I missed that. Thank you.

[–] Efwis 5 points 1 year ago

no it is a smaller instance called lemmy.zip that I'm working on. for some reason i couldn't edit my post to to clarify that.

[–] Efwis 3 points 1 year ago

gotit figured out i was entering the seach wrong it was !community@instance to find them. thanks for the answers.

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