Why do some communities on other instances not appear in a search ?
I've recently joined lemmy.world and have started searching and subscribing to various communities some are on lemmy.ml but when I search for voidlinux it returns nothing.? Yet I know it exists on lemmy.ml and I can see other communities on there such as Linux. π€
Checkout option 2 of "how to find and subscribe to communities" in https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827. Basically, communities are lazily discovered only once a person tries to interact with the community. So you can teach your instance about a community by searching for it as described there.
There's maybe useful federation performance reasons why it works this way but admittedly the resulting usability is pretty terrible. Once you learn the required steps, it's not TOO bad. But figuring it out is bonkers. That post should get you sorted though.
While searching for community change sorting to 'New' and then it appears, any other sorting (Top All Time, Top Day, Old, etc.) just doesn't show some new communities.
I've found that I have to wait up to 30 seconds for a community to show up in the search. At first it says there are no results, but every community I've searched for has eventually appeared after waiting.
I think this happens if I'm the first user from my instance to use the community. The more popular communities show up straight away.
While searching for community change sorting to 'New' and then it appears, any other sorting (Top All Time, Top Day, Old, etc.) just doesn't show some new communities.
Lemmy.world can see it fine, but I canβt seem to hit it through other instances.
Tried on Beehaw and Lemmy.ml, tried by searching using [email protected] and the URL, either way is no result. I can find my [email protected] post just fine, and tried follow the link but getting 404s there too.
While searching for community change sorting to 'New' and then it appears, any other sorting (Top All Time, Top Day, Old, etc.) just doesn't show some new communities.