I read in many places that this should be supported, but either I’m doing it wrong or it is not working.
I just signed up in my-place.social which seems to proclaim federation with over 1000 instances including Lemmy ones.
I put !fediverse in the search bar, but this community does not come up.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a friendica account I can tag to ask about this, or a group I can post in for support?
Friendica doesn’t use the “!” notation. This is only a notation that a Lemmy, Piefed, or MBIN instance understands.
Friendica instead uses the familiar account notation used by Mastodon, Sharkey, Misskey, etc. It sees the Lemmy community as a user that is also a group.
If you want to follow, for example, the “asklemmy” community at lemmy.world, in the “Add New Contact” box, just enter : asklemmy@lemmy.world, and then click the “Connect” button, and it will find it, and you can follow it like any other account. Friendica will recognize it as a “Group”, as opposed to an individual account, and it should show up in your Groups section.
Let me know if this works.
This worked, thank you!!
are you using the full domain? ‘!community @ instancedomain’? ie ‘!fediverse @ lemmy.world’? minus the spacing of course
Yes that yields the same result. I get some results, but not any from Lemmy including the one I am looking for.
Maybe try searching with @ comunity @ instance? Of course without spacing. Thats how i do on mastodon.
Does not yield the right results still
BTW, there is a community that you can join from Lemmy, Piefed, or MBIN, that supports my-place.social: https://feddit.online/c/my_place_social
