EDIT: Solved! Feel free to comment/message me if you’re having the same issue and I’ll be happy to help.

Supposedly I can subscribe to stuff from *fediverse accounts on other instances, in fact it’s one of the main selling points of the fediverse, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how.

"You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: "

Except nothing ever shows up in any search, either in community searches or the top search bar. It doesn’t even look like it’s trying to search. I also can’t find a place to just paste what specific instance sub I want to sub to.

Does this just not work or am I missing something obvious?

EDIT: Here’s a screenshot https://imgur.com/04FfhiC

EDIT2: I DID IT! So my error was following the instructions to “paste the following into the search engine of your instance” !syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml. What I ACTUALLY needed to do was just search for syncforlemmy in ‘All’.

Also, I can just use the URL field to navigate to a page that has a subscribe button, like this: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml I still have no clue what !syncforlemmy@lemmy.ml does and why I’m instructed to use it 🤷

  • @Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I just want to point out, your hack for searching for just “syncforlemmy” will only work with two Instances that are already federated. While most large ones already are, it may not always work with small Instances.

    This is why it is not preferred. But most of the time it should be fine.

  • @ken_cleanairsystemsEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    It usually takes a couple tries (for me), sometimes 3 or 4, before they show up in community search. Usually, just waiting 5 or 10 seconds does the trick, and they’ll come up the second time I search.

  • bunny_funeral
    1•1 year ago

    I was struggling to do the same. figured i could use my first post here to talk about it and make sure i can post cross instance.

    I wanted to subscribe to lemmy.ml/c/dota2 from kbin.social

    i ended up finding that i could access that instance from kbin from the following url:

    https://kbin.social/m/dota2@lemmy.ml

    maybe this will help you out

  • pruwybenEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    It’s a bit finicky, but when this kind of search hasn’t worked for me, I’ve had success searching without the ! or just pasting the community’s URL into the search.

  • Rob T FireflyEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    Your use of terminology is confusing.

    There aren’t different “fediverses.” There is one single Fediverse - that’s the sum total of all the different federated services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.) which can potentially communicate with one another, and the individual servers providing those services (like Lemmy.world, which is the Lemmy server where you have your account as well as the one hosting this community) interacting with each other.

    Could you be more specific about what particular thing on the Fediverse you are trying to use, and from which user account?

      • Rob T FireflyEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        If you’re on desktop go to the “communities” tab, select “all” under “list of communities,” and search for “syncforlemmy”. That will show you the syncforlemmy communities on lemmy.ml as well as here on lemmy.world (which has many more users, if that’s important to you) and elsewhere, and you can click each one to have a look and subscribe.