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Can't access some communities on other instances through here, even though I can access other communities on those instances. (discuss.online)
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Hello! Was hoping to make discuss.online my new home instance, but I'm having trouble accessing some communities on other instances:

They don't show up in communities search, and trying to go to them directly returns a server error page, with an error message given like:

FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=rpgcreation%40ttrpg.network&page=1&limit=20&sort=Active&type_=All

I can access other communities on all of those instances...

... so I know it's not an issue with them being blocked, but it seems like they're not being fully federated either?

Anything I can do on my end to further investigate or attempt a workaround?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like they all work now.

This usually means that no one else on this instance subscribes to them. The best way to subscribe to a community is to search for it then subscribe. Joining a community, currently, only pulls the last 20 posts. However, if the posts isn't present that you wish to comment on you can search for the URL of the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, they are all showing up now. Previously they weren't showing up in search either, so there wasn't a way for me to subscribe to them; from discuss.online's point of view it seemed as if they simply didn't exist. Maybe after searching for them / trying to visit them, that triggered something in the backend to pull them in?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, basically that’s how Lemmy works. Until someone visits it, the instance doesn’t know it exists.