!minimalism@lemmy.world Is the latest one I’ve found. I can find it if I go to my instance in the web, but not within the app.
The first time someone on an instance enters the name of a community, is when the instance goes and looks for it. Until then, that particular community is not federated to the local instance, and it is as if it does not exist.
Searching for a community in Jerboa, does not seem trigger this establishing of a connection.
I wonder how many communities on smaller (or even larger) instances there are that people just don’t know about because they didn’t know to look for them.
EDIT: How can I get kbin magazines to pop? I’ve tried searching for them at https://kbin.social/m/name and nothing. I know they exist, as I can see them on kbin.
I’ve noticed the same on the web UI. Searching a non-local community more often doesn’t work than does.
Search by community URL instead https://lemmy.tld/c/community
I’m on latte.isnot.coffee and I just searched both
!jerboa@lemmy.ml
andhttps://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa
and didn’t get results for either. Neither has a message saying that there are no search results, but neither shows any results either.Search by the URL
https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa
, it’s faster, if you search byjerboa@lemmy.ml
then you need to search again but only the community namejerboa
Like here “Method One: Search by URL”
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/