This is the most active one I have found:
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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Yeah that was the one I tried to join but it said I couldn't because only admins can create accounts. Unless I just don't know what I am doing, which is totally plausible seeing as how I just joined Lemmy this morning.
You should be able to join/subscribe to it but you need to do it from your instance... so search for !television@piefed.social in the lemmy.world search
Try the bang link instead. !television@piefed.social
You should be taken to the community but remain on .world and then you can subscribe to it.
Oh Brilliant! Thank you for you patience! That seems to have worked. So if I add a "!" in the future that should work?
You should also be able to use the search bar
In short, to use communities created on other instances, you will go to lemmy.world/c/COMMUNITY@INSTANCE
So to access the Canada community that's located on lemmy.ca, you go to lemmy.world/c/canada@lemmy.ca
The exclamation mark thing is a common link format that tells your app or the Lemmy websites that you are linking to a community somewhere. Using the search bar within lemmy.world should also do the same thing
This visual guide might help
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
This is helpful. Thank you! It will make sense eventually but it's very frustrating whenever I encounter something new and I can't intuitively figure it out my own but that's the price for it not being reddit, I imagine.
There's a small learning process, but ultimately it isn't that different. I think part of the difficulty is that the lack of a nice onboarding, which is what these guide pages are intended for
I'd also recommend these pages
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities
Welcome to Lemmy!
You'll get past the hurdles pretty quickly. It's a little confusing at first.