According to this comment, this has been an intermittent issue from the initial introduction of federation several weeks back: https://lemmy.ml/post/89740/comment/105555
Have we figured out why this is happening yet?
Ok so it looks like Lemmy comms appear in the search interface, and you can use the mini follow button in the result list to follow the comm.
If you view the comm, and then use the follow button there, it will submit a follow request which presumably will never be answered.
Alright now that it’s been a while, the icons have reverted to showing “cancel follow request” rather than “unfollow” so we’re back in the same spot as before.
Edit: Ignore this for now, I thought I’d gotten past the original issue.
Next question is how to get content from the comm to show up in my Mastodon feed after I follow.
I understand that being the first person on my instance to follow a comm will mean that my instance won’t preview any content, however I’m not seeing anything pop up yet now that I’m following.
You can’t follow users, only groups/communities. You can paste a Lemmy URL into mastodon search bar to load the post for sharing or commenting
Another finding is that even though the icons show that I am following the comms, they don’t show up in the “following” list of my profile.
