I thought it'd be useful for people who are only subscribed to /c/piracy from another instance to become aware of the communities local to this one

Good call!

Did my part and searched them on my home instance and subbed to a few of them.

To the folks who are trying to do the same on their home instances, you can actually just paste the URL directly into the search field (eg. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/switchpiracy) instead of doing the !switchpiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com syntax.

When you click search it may return no results or just a post or two, but just wait for about 10 seconds or so you'll see the community pop up. Like so.

As a retro computer enthusiast and BBS fan, thank you for sharing these. I’ve indexed them all to the SDF Lemmy instance (lots of retro nerds over there) and subbed to a few myself.

Things still aren't quite synced here on kbin so a lot of these are 404ing. Pulling them up in search seems to help. trying to subscribe to help trigger sync lol :)

if you’re the first person on your instance to search for them, you’ll need to search the entire url, or search like !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com for your instance to initially discover them. After that they should show up as normal

Anything for Kodi Addons, yet? The reddit sub has gone dark.

I wonder why they don't show up on search. I can't get to them from your links

Thank you! Finding new communities has been…challenging. Finding new communities is like mining and finally clearing away enough dirt to go “Aha! There you are!”

Thanks. I have now subscribed to a few from kbin. I look forward to sharing my ai art images all over the place if nothing else!