2y ago

Can't find a lemmy community from another server?

I'm on lemmy.ml, and I want to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek. There it says to put !songaweek@lemmy.world into search on my instance to subscribe, but it doesn't turn up anything. Anyone know why this might be, and/or how to work around it?

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If no one ever subscribed to that community it can take a few seconds for the server to fetch it. Just wait a bit or try again.
- You might need to click search a couple times. It usually only takes a few seconds but if the other server is down or they can’t otherwise can’t communicate temporarily or otherwise you might not be able to find it.
  
  Repeated searching isn't helping, and their webserver is working at https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek. There are other lemmy.world communities showing up in my feed. Hmmm
- I've tried a bunch of times, searching for "!songaweek@lemmy.world" in communities, with 'all' selected. Pretty consistently nothing for me. Does it come up for you?
  
  Works without problems here. Try searching the actual URL https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek
I was running into that too, then I tried pasting the https link to the community (for you, https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek) into the search bar and that worked. Just heads up you usually need to wait up to 30 seconds after pressing the “Search” button for the result to appear
- Ok that works - came up in about a second for me. Thx!

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