So when I go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities and search for let’s say Wordpress communities, I can see at least 3 there. When I search on my instance, so I can join and subscribe, I can’t see any. Why is that? The instances they are on are not defederated from my instace.

  • @PriorProjectEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827

    Discovery of remote.communities is pretty weird when you first encounter it, but can be managed if you learn the right way. Essentially, someone has to “teach” each instance about each remote community. If you are the first on your instance to discover a remote community, you have some unintuitive extra steps to go through before you can subscribe to it. They make no sense if you don’t know what to do, but once you learn it they are easy enough to execute.

    I don’t know of specific plans to improve this, but it’s broadly agreed that the current state of things is not real user friendly.

      • @PriorProjectEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Switch the types drop-down from its current value of communities to all. This is necessary because we can’t have nice things.

        Also, the WordPress community should now show up in the browsable list of communities on your instance, and if you search communities for just wordpress it should show up now that you taught your instance about it. It’s all very fiddly and you must do it exactly right… but I’m pretty sure your close.

        • CoachDomOPEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          That’s it, only had to change to All!

          Thanks! Yeah, I hope they fix that soon because with the influx of new users, most of them will never stumble upon this solution, so thinking there is no community for X, they will create a new one. And we will have millions of duplicates