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Questions about the Fediverse and how ActivityPub works (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MarkG_108 to c/main

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Hello. I recently joined Lemmy, and quite like it. I have been on Mastodon for a while. So, I was interested in following some of the communities and posts here on Lemmy within my Mastodon account. I did manage to successfully follow two communities from this instance, those being NDP and Ontario. However, other communities, such as Toronto, Biking, Canada, and some others, the search turned up empty (I had a screenshot to better illustrate this, but I was given a syntax error when I tried to upload it). So, I was unable to follow them on Mastodon.

Of the communities that I did manage to follow, I have been able to interact with them using my Mastodon account. However, some actions have not been as I expected them to be. I would put a hashtag in the title of a post here on Lemmy, expecting this to show up in a hashtag search on Mastodon (since, you know, we're all federated), but this didn't work. The post, when I search for it, appears on Mastodon, but it does not appear in a search of the included hashtag (which I find odd). But I digress.

My main question is why can I find and follow some Lemmy communities on Mastodon but some I simply cannot?

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[–] MarkG_108 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The communities I've searched for are all on this local instance, that being lemmy.ca. Mysteriously, some I can find and follow on Mastodon (IE, hockey, ontario, ndp), whereas others I cannot find or follow on Mastodon (IE, toronto, canada, main).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

[–] MarkG_108 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for your comment. However, I have found that putting an exclamation mark before the name of the community does not work, despite this being the default instruction given for how I "can subscribe from another Fediverse account". As I mentioned, I successfully followed some of the communities (hockey, ontario, ndp --> and this was by searching for these communities without the exclamation mark, because the exclamation mark prevented the finding of these communities) whereas others, with or without an exclamation mark, were not to be found (IE, toronto, canada, main).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Weird, I'm getting the same thing... Not sure what's going on then, maybe try asking whoever runs lemmy.ca, could be something on their end.