Edit2: Solved per wjs018's comment

Specifically !12ozmouse@adultswim.fan. I can tell the instance is federated because !adultswim@adultswim.fan shows up.

On Lemmy I'd run into this issue, and usually could use the community search and try searching in a few different formats to get it to show up eventually, but I wasn't able to get that to work here. I tried searching the link above, as well as the link without the !, the display name, and the full URL (https://adultswim.fan/c/12ozmouse), but these didn't work.

Is there any trick to doing this?

Edit: I was able to resolve my issue by making this post, because the link that appeared let me join. But I'd still like to know a general solution that doesn't involve finding or making a post with the link (the post preview didn't turn it into a link so I had to actually make the post for it to work).

On the communities page there is a button in the upper right to add a remote community. Note that piefed admins have the ability to disable a regular user from being able to do this, but on piefed.social it shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks!

I'm trying to add a NSFW community ( !BigAnimeTiddies@lemmynsfw.com ) but it doesn't seem to work. Any clue what's going on? I was able to subscribe to other NSFW communities except for this one.

Edit: I should add that I've already unblocked LemmyNSFW.com from my account. Still can't find the community.

Actually no. I just had a look through the code and we have some pretty descriptive error messages depending on how it is failing:

• There is a message that will pop up if the instance is blocked (doesn't look like it is for piefed.zip)
• There is a message that will pop up if the community is banned
• There is a message that will pop up if the instance doesn't allow NSFW communities (looks like piefed.zip does)
• There is a message that will pop up if the admin has restricted users from adding new communities
• Finally, there is a message if the community name is formatted incorrectly

@demigodrick@piefed.zip might be able to help you better as your local admin.

I only got the "Community not found." error. Fingers crossed for a solution from my local admins. Thanks for the info!