Both instances are on each other's list of linked instances but I couldn't get there from here via search. I had to manually add in /c/[email protected] in the address bar and subscribe from there before it started showing up in search. Is that normal...?
It seems to work for me. It could be that it didn't work for you, because I just upgraded the instance to the latest Lemmy version. Maybe you tried to search in the very moment I did some backend work.
Community content of "less popular" instances will show up in search once at least 1 person on this instance has subscribed to it.
I will add midwest.social to the seeder script on the server to have it periodically look up the most popular communities on there and subscribe to them automatically using a bot account, which has the same effect.