Hello!

I have my own instance up and running and I’d like to see some content when I hit that “All” filter.

So I thought, I’ll just goof around on other instances and sub to nice communities so that their I stance will get added to my server(right? Or is it ‘just’ the community?).

For example science@beehaw.org, but how do I actually do it? It seems that sometimes it works (on the web?) but on Jerboa, which is if I have got it right the official app.

Tried to search for

science@beehaw.org

beehaw.org

!science@beehaw.org

But nothing shows up.

I know I can add instances to my server, but that needs admin rights and of course is a bit cumbersome.

Thank you all!

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    1 year ago

    Currently this process is rather painful as there is no way to look at all local communities of remote instance thru your instance and subscribe to them directly.

    Instead there are two ways to get a remote community subscribed locally.

    You can also do the URL-in-search-bar trick with posts and comments to forcefully load/sync them locally.

    Keep in mind that instances will push new community events (upvotes, comments, posts) only when there is at least on subscriber, so in the case you fetch the remote community locally but do not subscribe, it will not be be actively synced and only few posts will be visible (with possibly wrong karma/comment counters and so on).