How does the search function work and why does it sometimes not work from different instances when searching All? In other words -

  • I search for a community that exists on Lemmy instance A (e.g. midwest.social) from Lemmy instance B (e.g. lemmy.ml) and it finds it.
  • I search for that same community from Lemmy instance C (e.g. lemmy.one), and it doesn’t find it.
  • Lemmy instance A, B, and C are all connected / federated.
     

Ultimately, my goal is to subscribe to communities from the instance I’m logged into but can’t find by searching All from there, for whatever reason. How do I do that?

  • DarraignTheSaneOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Yeah, mostly I’m searching from / logged into lemmy.one, which as far as I know doesn’t block anything. Trying to find communities on midwest.social for example, and even with the [email protected] syntax it doesn’t seem to find them. “Communities > All” is selected up top. Not sure if it’s something I’m doing wrong or what.

    • qantravonEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I’m having the same problem, searches for any communities not on my local instance (with a few exceptions from lemmy.ml and beehaw) turn up zero results, even with the ! token.

      A workaround someone mentioned on another thread was to just directly go to a the address with the following format:

      https://home.server/c/[email protected]

      This does seem to mostly work (I’m sometimes getting 404 errors when I try), but I’ve had issues with some where I’m only getting a few posts when viewing from my home server.