The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?
How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?
If the communities haven’t synced to your instance yet, then you can prompt the instance to sync them by copying and pasting them into your instance’s search page. Unfortunately lemmy doesn’t do this automatically when you visit the URL, at least not yet.
Once the communities are synced, then you should be able to just click the links to visit them and subscribe from there.
I get no results? I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, sorry
It can take a very long time sometimes for the community to show up. It is still searching in the background even though it says “No results”.
Hm, that’s surprising. I didn’t expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g.
!news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.Go to your instance, click ok search and paste each one in there, then you can just access them like regular subreddits. If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.
That’s actually not true! If you format the links like this:
/c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com, like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they’re viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)