•  2muchcaffeine4u   ( @2muchcaffeine4u@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English
    4•1 year ago

    It seems like it should be straightforward, but it doesn’t appear to be working very well.

    I just saw a community I wanted to follow. My account is in lemmy.fmhy.ml, and the community is in lemmy.world.

    The link to the community is this: https://lemmy.world/c/sql

    Following formatting standards, the link for me to be able to join SHOULD be https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/sql@lemmy.world correct?

    But when I type that in I get “404: couldnt_find_community”. This is true every time I try to simply change the community name. In fact I have not been able to go to a single community using the URL formatting in this way.

    Am I misunderstanding something?

    •  Threen   ( @Threen@aussie.zone ) English
      2•1 year ago

      The trick I use is to double-search for it

      On your instance, search for the full URL of the original community, then search again for just the community name

      So for you:

      It is not ideal, but it has worked on my instance every time