# A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world. Privacy has
become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments
constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the
importance of digital privacy. In this community everyone is welcome to post
links and discuss topics related to privacy. ### Some Rules - Posting a link to
a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind
a paywall maybe copy them into the post - Don’t promote proprietary software -
Try to keep things on topic - If you have a question, please try searching for
previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered - Reposts are fine, but
should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a
new audience - Be nice :) ### Related communities - Lemmy.ml libre_culture
[https://lemmy.ml/c/libre_culture] - Lemmy.ml privatelife
[https://lemmy.ml/c/privatelife] - Lemmy.ml DeGoogle
[https://lemmy.ml/c/degoogle] - Lemmy.ca privacy [https://lemmy.ca/c/privacy]
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity.
Happy to be here!
I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.
I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.
I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.
Seems to be solved already from one of your comments, but there’s some useful tips in such cases.
For example, if you write in a comment, post, DM, etc. the community handle, you get a community mention you can open locally (at least on browser; I don’t use the apps), e.g. !privacy@lemmy.ml becoming !privacy@lemmy.ml
Similarly, if you go to https://lemmy.world/search and search for a post’s link, it should pull the given post even if it hadn’t previously been fetched, thus allowing to view the community too (which also gets pulled if it hadn’t before either). For example, searching for https://szmer.info/post/17039481, a post from the Privacy community you wanted to join in, pulls the local copy for lemmy.world, https://lemmy.world/post/54245878.
Another thing, an external community only gets populated when older posts are pulled manually, e.g. through the search function above, and/or when someone subscribes to that community, thus pulling newer ones as they come.
Seems to be solved already from one of your comments, but there’s some useful tips in such cases.
For example, if you write in a comment, post, DM, etc. the community handle, you get a community mention you can open locally (at least on browser; I don’t use the apps), e.g.
!privacy@lemmy.mlbecoming !privacy@lemmy.mlSimilarly, if you go to https://lemmy.world/search and search for a post’s link, it should pull the given post even if it hadn’t previously been fetched, thus allowing to view the community too (which also gets pulled if it hadn’t before either). For example, searching for
https://szmer.info/post/17039481, a post from the Privacy community you wanted to join in, pulls the local copy for lemmy.world,https://lemmy.world/post/54245878.Another thing, an external community only gets populated when older posts are pulled manually, e.g. through the search function above, and/or when someone subscribes to that community, thus pulling newer ones as they come.