I’ve seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don’t show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in “!communityname@instance.domain”

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

  • danchez1@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Where’s the magnifying glass? I’m very new here and all of this is pretty confusing. Can I get an ELI5? I was able to sign up and I’m not using the Jerboa app on Android and I don’t see a magnifying glass anywhere.

    • Wander@yiffit.netOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Bottom bar. The list icon next to the home icon let’s you search on Jerboa.

        • lixus98@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          What you want to do is search for @totk@lemmy.ml, basically just replacing the exclamation mark (!) for the @ symbol.
          Why? Because kbin uses the @ symbol and Lemmy uses the ! symbol for the communities.

          Edit: I’m working in an extension for chrome and firefox, it will basically convert the lemmy format !communityname@instance.domain to the kbin format so you just need to click on it.