Sorry if this isn’t the right community to post to, I’m not sure where to ask this very specific question.

I want to subscribe to certain communities on @literatur.cafe. Nothing nasty, just book related communities.

When I use the search all I can find is the meta-community of that instance.

What can I do to find and subscribe to the communties hosted on that instance?

  • Dystopia@dormi.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    You can also try using https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search communities.

    If I wanted to go to the beehaw gaming community, I would copy the link with the ! and append it onto the end of my instance url, replacing the ! with /c/ like this:
    Instance: https://dormi.zone
    Community: !gaming@beehaw.org
    Spliced: https://dormi.zone/c/gaming@beehaw.org

    Defederated instances can make things a little annoying, i.e. an account from lemmy.world would not be able to connect to communities from beehaw because they are defederated. You can either try looking for an alternative like “!games@lemmy.world” or create an account on an instance that isn’t defederated with beehaw. If you’re on mobile, most clients I’ve tried support swapping between accounts so it’s not too much of a hassle.