undefined> Use this to search for a community in order to subscribe. You can omit the bang (‘!’), but then you will only find the community if another lemming of your home instance has already discovered it. To discover it, you have to bang it.

In short, searching for !com@ins.tance is like searching for com@ins.tance with added functionality and no downsides (as far as I’m aware of, still learning).

This is very important for lemmings on small instances. Lemmings on big instances often don’t need to use the bang, because someone else from their home instance has likely already discovered.

I feel like I’m in the 1990s trying to set up everything through a VCR