Hello,

I have subscribed to a few communities already (some on other instances, like lemmy.ml ou beehaw), but some communities cannot be accessed from here, even tough other communities from the same instance are available.

For example, I cannot access !golang@lemmy.ml from here, even though I can access other communities from lemmy.ml here, and the community is accessible from other instances (like feddit.de: https://feddit.de/c/golang@lemmy.ml). I only get a 404 error: https://sh.itjust.works/c/golang@lemmy.ml

Is there any reason why? Maybe related to load issues @lemmy.ml?

  • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like you’re sorted, but for more context check this post out: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

    TLDR:

    • The community list syncs “lazily”, only adding a community when a user tries to interact with it.
    • So at any given time, your instance knows about the list of communities that you and other users on that instance have searched for.
    • Communities in the list can be easily subbed.
    • Missing communities have to be “taught” to the instance with a very precise search.
    • This makes community discovery frustrating. There are some external community discovery resources, life gets a lot better when you use them… but you still have to do the dance about “teaching” your instance about a a new community when you’re the first to find it.