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I created two small communities on Lemmy.world, one is Militaria Collecting, and one is called Unforgotten. Following the recent hack, I decided it would be best to have several moderator accounts on different instances. As I am searching for these communities on Lemmy.ml on my alt, it won’t show up. I have tried troubleshooting, but it isn’t working. Why is this, and what can I do to allow my account to join?

This isn’t just an account issue, I fear that my communities are missing out on a lot of potential subscribers if it is unable to be seen. What can I do?

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

Confirming that this is the way it works (at least on kbin). I just did a test run with [email protected] on Kbin.social. At first it doesn't show up and I get a 404. I then follow @Spec_OpsFive (who does exist on kbin.social via this thread that was federated there), and search again - it now shows a newly created magazine (aka community) with no posts, and I'm allowed to sub:

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

So yeah, someone has to subscribe to either the user or the magazine for the instance to start recording content from it. Once that initial step is in play, your instance records the incoming posts from the federated community.