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 !privacy@lemmy.ml … and it just flat doesn’t work.

There seems to be two ways to subscribe … from the privacy@lemmy.ml community, I click the “Subscribe” button, which asks for my home instance, then gives me this error:

“Could not fetch !privacy@lemmy.ml”

Alternately, searching for “!privacy@lemmy.ml” 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.

    • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      9 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@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        It is possible.

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