I’m trying to transfer my subscriptions from lemmy.ml over to a new account here, but the community search is failing to find most of those subs. For example: comics, esp32, selfhost, and datahoarder.
Even if I try reaching the url directly (https://mander.xyz/c/homeserver@lemmy.ml) I get a “404: couldnt_find_community” error. Are these communities blocked from Mander for some reason?
It is possible to have communities with the same in in two different instances. One community would be atheism@lemmy.ml, and the other community would be atheism@mander.xyz. They would be fully independent communities.
For example, many instances will make a “test” community for testing. When accessing the community in your own instance, the community name is used without the @instance:
https://mander.xyz/c/test
And the @instance is specified when accessing a community from a different instance.
https://mander.xyz/c/test@lemmy.ml
It is also possible to always include @instance, even if it is in your own instance. So the following works too:
https://mander.xyz/c/test@mander.xyz
This last fact is useful when you want to create a relative URL. For example, clicking here would send you to the test@mander.xyz community in your own instance, as long as the community has already been “fetched”.
I hope this all makes sense. I am happy to answer any more questions.
It does, thank you!