I’m new … probably been asked a dozen times, but I searched and do not see the same issue.

I am on discuss.tchncs.de and trying to subscribe to [email protected] … and it just flat doesn’t work.

There seems to be two ways to subscribe … from the [email protected] community, I click the “Subscribe” button, which asks for my home instance, then gives me this error:

“Could not fetch [email protected]”

Alternately, searching for “[email protected]” from my home page and trying to subscribe thru that, gives me this error message:

"Error!

There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn’t work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room."

… which brought me here.

Thanks in advance.

2024/02/03, 17:07UTC Addendum: As of this moment, I can no longer find this community, at all … clearly something is up with it. IDK if it’s been permanently deleted, or if they’re just having some kind of config/maintenance trouble, but for now, at least, it does not exist.

    • DosDude👾
      2•5 months ago

      It doesn’t seem that way. It looks like a federation issue, but I’m not sure why. There’s 2 communities from ml on there. One of them is [email protected] but it hasn’t had recent posts. The other is [email protected] and the most recent post is from 23 days ago. So I guess after that is when problems started.

      My own instance works fine with lemmy.ml

        • @can
          2•5 months ago

          Yes. Lemmy.world did it to the piracy community for a couple weeks before walking it back.

      • [email protected]A
        3•5 months ago

        An instance admin can “remove” a remote community, which is effectively like banning, but for a community.
        You’d have to check with your home instance admins on this one.

        • Wistful
          4•5 months ago

          Is that really possible? I’ve never heard about that. If it’s true, I feel like it should be public information, like defederated instances.

          But in this case I have a feeling it’s just a broken federation.

          • @can
            2•5 months ago

            It is possible.

            They later made a formal announcement, and not long after backtracked entirely.