Please help with the basics of subscribing to remote communities. (Many ways to do it wrong, included)
Alright I really thought I had cracked this nut, but some of these are still eluding me. I went on a run of subscribing to a bunch of remote communities and felt like I had really mastered the fediverse in theory and in execution... then I was humbled.
I'm guessing that the remote communities I've already subscribed to went very smoothly because somebody on kbin already did the hard work of finding them and subscribing, and I was unknowingly riding on their coattails.
The small community I'm trying to join is lemmy.world/c/pennsylvania. So far I've tried:
- Pointing my browser to kbin.social/m/pennsylvania@lemmy.world
- 404
- I assume this is because kbin is so far, unaware of this community
- Pointing my browser to kbin.social/c/pennsylvania@lemmy.world
- I was pretty sure this wouldn't work, but I've been wrong about things I was pretty sure about, before.
- Pointing my browser to kbin.social/c/Pennsylvania@lemmy.world
- I recently learned that kbin is unintentionally picky about capitalization in some cases. When I learned this, I REALLY thought I found the answer to my problem.
- Click the magnifying glass, search for https://lemmy.world/c/pennsylvania
- Click the magnifying class, search for https://lemmy.world/c/Pennsylvania
- Click the magnifying glass, search for !pennsylvania
- I really thought this would work because I thought the ! is how you tell your instance to seriously go out and get something, even if it has never heard of it before. (is that just for lemmy?)
- Click the magnifying glass, search for !Pennsylvania
I am defeated.
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