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?

  • acockworkorange
    1·
    1 year ago

    Quick question: is it possible to have two separate communities of the same name in two different instances? Like an atheism@lemmy.ml and an atheism@mander.xyz? How is that handled?

    • SalamanderMA
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.