There is an “offgrid” community on slrpnk.net. I would like to interact with that community from waveform.social. How can I create that community on waveform.social as a federated community, not as a separate new one?
You just use the remote community directly: !offgrid@slrpnk.net
Opening that while on waveform.social (and possibly refreshing a few times if you get errors while it initializes it) will show you that community, subscribe to it and generally interact with it.
You can also copy paste the URL from slrpnk.net on the search of waveform.social and it should also show up there, but it never worked that well for me.
Thanks!
Note that i get the following:
Error! There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room. The server returned this error: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=offgrid%40slrpnk.net&page=1&limit=20&sort=Active&type_=All. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the errorI suppose (hope) that’s an uncommon glitch. I was at least able to subscribe using the search method.
This happens to me every time I try to load a “not yet known to my server” community. Wait a moment or two and reload the page.
Hopefully this part of the ux will improve over time.
tha happens when you are first person from your instance trying to access that remote instance for the first time. you have to reload and it should work fine after that.
Indeed it worked eventually. I was then able to crosspost to offgrid.
Open the offgrid Community on slrpnk.net Copy the !offgrid@slrpnk.net string into the search function of your instance and wait a little bit. Now your instance gets the Community. Click an it and you can join ☺️
there is also “lemmy universal link switcher” - https://lemm.ee/post/530506 - which automatically converts all links you meet to links within your own instance.
there is a downside to using it though - reading threads like the one we are in right now is extremely confusing, because all the suggested links are already converted 🤣
