You can find communities on whichever server you're on (looks like you are using lemmy.ml) from the search, or if you see a post from that community you can click on the name. Either way, communities on your server will have a url like /c/community
, whereas communities not on your sever will have a url like /community/17561
. You can subscribe to either in the same way, by just clicking the subscribe button!
Here's an example you can test out on
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I actually learned that the best way to subscribe to communities from another instance through search is to do !community_name@server_instance . Thanks for your response though.