Are you using a Lemmy mobile app? On voyager I just view the privacy community at privacy@lemmy.ml and select subscribe from a drop down. I don't have to choose any instance to follow from. I've never had an issue subscribing from voyager.
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Cheers and welcome. Not sure if this is your issue, but I found I can’t subscribe to an community that has a user with the same name as the community…never found a workaround for that. Also, .world may have just banned .ml out right lol.
Thanks! That's... An interesting bug. I've added a couple of communities from .ml without issue, so it does seem to be specific to that one community.
It is and whoops you said that lol. Yah I tried to subscribe to it from my instance as well and it retuned “Server error” as well so it’s not just you.
Thanks for trying.
Maybe its the username thing - who do we talk to about bugs around here?!
Looks like you are .world, so go to the main page and check the sidebar. There is a questions/help section. I think there is a support community listed.
I just unfollowed and re-followed Privacy on .ml, and it's left my follow request as 'pending'. Not sure what's up there, but it does seem like there's something a little wonky going on on their end.
Seems to be solved already from one of your comments, but there's some useful tips in such cases.
For example, if you write in a comment, post, DM, etc. the community handle, you get a community mention you can open locally (at least on browser; I don't use the apps), e.g. !privacy@lemmy.ml becoming !privacy@lemmy.ml
Similarly, if you go to https://lemmy.world/search and search for a post's link, it should pull the given post even if it hadn't previously been fetched, thus allowing to view the community too (which also gets pulled if it hadn't before either). For example, searching for https://szmer.info/post/17039481, a post from the Privacy community you wanted to join in, pulls the local copy for lemmy.world, https://lemmy.world/post/54245878.
Another thing, an external community only gets populated when older posts are pulled manually, e.g. through the search function above, and/or when someone subscribes to that community, thus pulling newer ones as they come.
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