This federation concept does not work as expected for me. If I understand correctly, I can access a community from mastodon, kbin and others. But In practice I get a lot of 404 errors.

For example, I want to access https://kbin.social/m/tech from lemmy. So I could access it by going to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/tech@kbin.social, right? But I just get a "404: couldnt_find_community" error message.

Also the search functionality seems really broken when you want to search a community from another instance, sometimes it's in the results and sometimes it's not. Is there a cache of some kind or a really long delay when a community is new?

[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not 100% sure but I think as of now kbin users can view lemmy instances, but lemmy users can't see kbin posts.

Unfortunate but hopefully they implement the feature soon.

As for search, yeah if a community is being fetched for the first time in any instance, it takes a few seconds to fetch all the info. Subsequent times search will show it instant as its already stored in local dB.

[–] akrz@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised that no one made a bot that auto federate the instances, that would fix the search being wonky. But I guess we are in the early days.

[–] gravistar@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if something were to happen to fmhy.ml and it went offline down the road. Is there a way to backup all our current subscriptions if we need to instance hop? Would be kinda annoying to hunt down all those communities again.

[–] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Currently exporting and importing subscriptions is not a feature on lemmy, which does make migration more tedious. I hope they do add it in the future. As for whether or not our instance will go offline, I do not see it happening for any particular reason right now.

[–] pefak@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can we view NSFW communities from this instance? I tried but was unsuccessful. (I already ticked the box to allow NSFW in settings)

[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can view those communities just fine, can you elaborate where the issue is ?

[–] pefak@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure.

For example, I try to see !gonewild@lemmynsfw.com. If I go directly there I won't be able to see anything because I'm not logged in. If I try to search for "!gonewild@lemmynsfw.com" in the communities tab in the FMHY instance I get no results. I also tried this from the lemmy.ml instance where I also have another account.

The only solution I see is to create an account on the NSFW instance.

[–] solitude@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think when you initially search, it'll only be searching "Communities" (look towards the upper left, under the word "Search", at the drop-down tab menu). Change that to "all" and it should repopulate below. Click on the link which has the "...NameOfCommunity... - ## subscribers" formatting, and it should take you to the screen where you can subscribe to the community to the upper right.

I would think searching with the "Communities" in the tab would work, but I'm guessing that means communities which are only in the community or instance that you are currently in. I hope that makes sense.

[–] pefak@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It makes sense. Thanks. And I've been able to find almost everything I'm looking for but I still find some issues while searching for newer communities.

For example, I'm looking to subscribe to the blackmetal community from lemmy.ml, I cannot find it under the FMHY instance, but I could find it with my account at the lemmy.ml instance.

Probably I'm doing something wrong, or maybe the servers are saturated.