No worries, happy to help. I guess that might solve some of the issues you detailed in the comment above.
I skimmed through it, but some other points I was a bit confused about
so if you attempt to visit https://lemmy.world/c/drpg you will get an error, as if that were an invalid community. It is a valid community though, it is just on a tiny instance that such people have not included in their nets
The issue here is not about discuss.online being a small instance, but mostly you not using the URL with the instance name
- https://lemmy.world/c/drpg@discuss.online works and displays the community
- https://lemmy.world/c/linus_tech_tips@discuss.online same