Oh noes, that short community list 😱 – but hey, some have been shown to the instance already! 🎊
An instance needs to learn the network either organically from interactions or by getting pointed to nice places of the fediverse.

Finding a community

You might have seen the instancelist already. You can view their communities and subscribe to them from tchncs:

Syntax

The syntax for a community is !community.
The syntax for a remote community is !community@server.xyz

Show this server a community:

  1. Go to the search and look up a remote community that you either found on the network or simply guessed.
  2. The server will now try to subscribe to it in the background
  3. After a while the ui will refresh and show the community as a search result. This might take a few seconds. (otherwise see below).
  4. If you want to make sure, just search again after a few seconds or check the community-list and you should find what you were looking for.