It seems like it should be straightforward, but it doesn’t appear to be working very well.

I just saw a community I wanted to follow. My account is in lemmy.fmhy.ml, and the community is in lemmy.world.

The link to the community is this: https://lemmy.world/c/sql

Following formatting standards, the link for me to be able to join SHOULD be https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/sql@lemmy.world correct?

But when I type that in I get “404: couldnt_find_community”. This is true every time I try to simply change the community name. In fact I have not been able to go to a single community using the URL formatting in this way.

Am I misunderstanding something?

Sorry if this is a silly question, but what link?

how do I follow the !startrek@startrek.website community using an account created on another instance? Every time I click a link there, it takes me to that instance and tells me I am no longer logged in and have to make another account (which I did at first but I’m regretting now because I’m getting myself confused, I think).