Hmm, was able to view it on mine after putting the URL (https://kbin.social/m/linux) into my instance’s search bar. But it doesn’t seem to show any posts. Normally upon discovering a community lemmy should bring in the top 20 posts.

https://lemmy.rogers-net.com/c/linux@kbin.social

Copy the URL and paste it into the search bar of your instance. That will force your instance to “Discover” it. It might say no results but go back to the community page then search the name again

What was stopping people on reddit? You could make /r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews, etc

It’s a bit muddy right now but a clear winner for each topic will win out and become “the” place for that topic. Give it time, let people figure things out.

I mean, same concept

There’s no easy way right now but I made a post earlier on how to do it manually.

https://lemmy.rogers-net.com/post/11502

Heh. Username is default but isn’t the password defined in the docker file? That’s not default.

Yeah, I do that on my home server but my VPS had passwordless sudo by default so I was too lazy to do this.

Pretty much!

I can confidently say both, as I’ve started my own instance of lemmy and have allowed a small amount of users to join.

It’s for kbin. I don’t think it would work for lemmy.

Yeah the only reason I still go to Reddit is to watch the chaos. Great entertainment

I still think the admin team will forcefully takeover and reopen the big subs, but I think that’ll be like pouring gasoline on that dumpster fire.

Man it would really suck if we ever lost the backlog of YouTube videos

135 by my count. (Just means I’ve been commenting in communities that your instance hasn’t discovered yet)

Edit: instance, not insurance lmao

Yep, worked for me.

Well usually at least the first 20 posts show up for new communities that I search. But for this it shows no posts. There should be one.

Only the very first user to subscribe/search for a new community needs to do this. It’ll just appear for everyone else on that instance from then on.

And the devs are working on a solution to make this happen more automatically.

Segmentation was a problem on Reddit too. Anyone could make a sub with a similar name to compete with another. Users on lemmy will probably slowly gravitate towards one or two big communities for each topic. It’s just early days.

Lol, it had nothing to do with Rogers the telecom company. That’s just the URL I happened to own for personal reasons.

I think if you put the URL of their profile into the search bar it will probably show up.

Edit: no, it’ll only show any comments that mastodon profile has made on lemmy.

Yes. Searching will have it appear but subscribing means comments and votes will start syncing over.

I believe the devs have said they’re working on making that work more automatically. Like having it happen as soon as a user clicks a link to it for the first time on your server. And also making links to communities outside your home instance automatically be changed so that it keeps you on your instance where you’re logged in.

For example right now if someone on BeeHaw.org clicks https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, it’ll take them to lemmy.ml where they’re not logged in. They should add /c/ tags like /r/ on reddit, and when someone on BeeHaw clicks something like /c/memes@lemmy.ml, it should take them to beehaw.org/c/memes@lemmy.ml so they can stay signed in and comment/vote/post. You can do this manually right now by creating a link like so:

[/c/memes@lemmy.ml](/c/memes@lemmy.ml)

It already is, open your community in incognito mode. It just doesn’t show because you’re already subscribed.