Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml Mr. Stevenson Two @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

What am I doing wrong when trying to see my community from another instance?

https://lemmy.ml/c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca doesn’t work, but that form of syntax seems to work for other communities.

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For the community to show up on an instance, it needs to have been viewed by at least one person from that instance. (You need to be logged in for this to count).

I went to https://lemmy.one/c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca with my alt on that instance. Now you should be able to see it from there, even if you aren't logged in.

Also, I think for posts to be federated properly there needs to be at least one subscriber from the instance (just visiting isn't enough). I'm not sure about that tho.
- You have to have at least one user on an instance subscribed to a community, or else it will just sit there all stale..
  
  Unfortunate how lemmy seems geared to work for the most popular things and fail at the margins, when the margins may deserve our love more.
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  Oh...!
  
  This whole visibility thing is a serious problem, even though everyone seems to want us to think of it as normal and acceptable. Doing anything on a small instance becomes a bad idea.
  
  Yeah discovery is kinda terrible. Luckily there's tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities and https://lemmyverse.net/kbin/magazines, but something like that definitely needs to be built into Lemmy itself.
  
  To get the community started you can put it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, sub.rehab if there's a counterpart on reddit, and maybe advertise it in any relevant places. After you get just one subscriber from an instance everyone there will be able to see it in search and the all tab.
  
  This whole visibility thing is a serious problem
  
  Yes. I have been preaching that since I first started using lemmy in June. Every time I bring it up my comment is downvoted to oblivion. The way it currently works is borderline abusive to new users of lemmy.
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca
This post says 3 comments, but I still only see the @NicoCharrua reply and my reply to them upon reloading.

I often see where a post is supposed to have a reply or two, but I open it and there are none. Is this another visibility problem? I’m using the ordinary web interface.
- Ah! I don’t have show bot accounts. It would be much less confusing if it said that a bot comment was hidden.

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