2y ago

Why can I see some lemmy.world communities but not others coming from kbin.social?

Basically title. As you can see, I see this community and can post to it fine. But some others just return a 404.

This is the link that works (for kbin.social):
https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

And here's one that doesn't:
https://kbin.social/m/imperor@lemmy.world
actual link: https://lemmy.world/c/imperor

Any input/Help would be appreciated!

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The communities have to get cached from your local instance. And sometimes it takes some time. I would suggest to search for it directly. And it looks like the url u send works now.
- Still returning 404 for me and searching directly on kbin doesn't give me results, sadly. Could it be also an issue with caching on my end? Like, do I need to clear cache and cookies? Would be odd, but I don't want to dismiss it as a requirement.
  
  Try another browser. Then you would 100% know if it is your currently browser
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !imperor@lemmy.world, !imperor@lemmy.world
Yeah, that makes some sense. Seeing the community also says created by Edwin and like half an hour ago or so. Seems to me the instance creates a local copy, once it's first accessed and that has to be cached periodically. Slowly starting to click together.
This is the way I reach the instance through the kbin search field:
@ imperor@ lemmy.world (without the spaces)
I get this as a result:
https://kbin.social/search?q=%40imperor%40lemmy.world
- That's the ticket! That one worked, thank you so much! Quick edit: I do see the community now and I can also access it via the link, though it's empty for me. Alas. Definitely a step in the right direction.
  
  My pleasure 👍🏽
- Worked for me too.. Thank you!
Same for me.. I can see threads but not the community itself. The community was created a long time ago. https://lemmy.world/c/iota or https://kbin.social/m/iota@lemmy.world
- Thank you for the tip.. That worked
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !iota@lemmy.world, !iota@lemmy.world

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