I’ve added https://lemmyrs.org/c/support for largely the same reason :)

Yeah, I know folks are struggling to find the communities on other instances. I posted https://lemmyrs.org/comment/3900 if it helps. Basically you start your search with the full URL, wait a second and then switch back to text search and it pops up magically.

The UX certainly needs some polish, but we’ll get there :)

Okay, so it is definitely a little wonky but I was able to search for lemmyrs.org/c/rustlang from another instance.

I first had to paste the full url https://lemmyrs.org/c/rustlang in the search bar then click search a few times for it to actually show up.

I understand it’s very annoying that it is this way but I’m hopeful that the experience will smooth out over time.

Hmm, I’ll try to debug that tomorrow. It has been a bit flaky in my experience as well. Some folks have had success subscribing from other instances fwiw but its been admittedly inconsistent.

I myself have been figuring things out, but ideally you should be able to just go to Communites -> Search and it should show all the relevant named communities from other instances (as long as the instances are listed in federation, which lemmyrs.org is fwiw).

Admittedly that functionality is a little flaky in my limited experience.

Greetings! The legend himself!

I made the suggested communities over at lemmyrs.org. The next few weeks are going to be very interesting!

I mostly agree with you and the fact is yes there are no guarantees. But that’s kind of the point, I don’t believe that lemmy.ml would be around forever either, will lemmyrs be? I don’t know! I see it as an opportunity to further decentralize and diversify the existing ecosystem. FWIW, the maintainers themselves encourage hosting other instances :)

As long as you’re already here then yeah you can just subscribe to https://lemmyrs.org/c/rustlang. lemmyrs.org serves as an instance for those who haven’t yet joined the fediverse to help keep the load off of the main beehaw/lemmy.ml instances.

If there’s enough traction in the rustlang community then lemmyrs.org can serve both as the instance to join fediverse as well the main rust community on fediverse. I think its too early to tell.

If by channel you mean a community (I don’t really know the difference), I’ve made one at /c/rustlang