Hello, When I go to communities and list all, I can only see two pages of communities. If I search for a community I know about there’s a good chance it does not show until I go to https://lemmy.nz/c/group@instance

Once I do that I can subscribe to the community and it’s behaving normally.

Is this an effect of it being federated?

Thanks

    • DaveMA
      4·
      1 year ago

      I believe searching is required. You can’t just skip to https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected]

      However, once one (logged in) user from lemmy.nz has searched for it by URL or as [email protected], then you can visit that URL.

      I’ve just searched for this community and it’s now showing fine, but when I first searched it had the pause on “No results” like it hadn’t federated yet. You should be able to join it now no problem.

      • WhittOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        That does make sense, thanks for having a look.

      • z2k_
        2·
        1 year ago

        I feel like as lemmy matures, this is a process that a client app can automate. eg. If given a lemmy community url check if it exists, if it does then search for it on the users intance, then retry periodically until it’s available.