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. 🤔

  • @PriorProject
    12•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      I’ve actually found the problem!

      FIX:

      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.

  • @[email protected]
    10•2 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•2 years ago

    I’ve actually found the problem!

    FIX:

    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.

    • Compgeek
      1•2 years ago

      Could you give this a shot with [email protected]?

      I still can’t seem to get my community on other instances when searching either by URL or with the !avtech syntax

        • Compgeek
          2•2 years ago

          Very finicky indeed! I can see all the posts there when searching “avtech” and clicking through, but the comments and upvotes aren’t showing over there. I’m sure they’ll sort it out in time, but does seem very important when a lot of communities are trying to get off the ground.

  • @j4k3
    4•2 years ago

    I’ve had the same issue with subscribing to Computer Science on the .ml server. I’m not sure why.

  • Compgeek
    2•2 years ago

    I’m having the same problem with a community I started, https://lemmy.world/c/avtech

    Lemmy.world can see it fine, but I can’t 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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    I have the same problem. I can’t find some communities when ‘All’ is selected.

    Seems to me that is communities creator fault. Maybe they didn’t do federation to other instances.

    • SanguinePar
      4•2 years ago

      Problem with that is that there are lots of new instances, hard to keep on top of that all the time.

      There’s a useful community called New Communities (or similar) - I’ll add a link here shortly.

      EDIT - https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities

      Also, very useful is https://browse.feddit.de, which lets you search for communities across all instances.

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 years ago

        I’ve actually found the problem!

        FIX:

        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.