I have a lemmy account on lemmy.sdf.org

When searching for communities to join I can see several in the list from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org

but while searching for some communities that I know exist on lemmy.ml or beehaw.org I am getting no results

will a community from instance A only appear in search results on instance B if a user from instance B has already manually subscribed to that specific community from instance A?

basically, there is no scraping of ‘all available’ communities even when two instances know of each others existence? only ‘specific communities’ are indexed when a user has manually found/subscribed?

  • cwagner@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I use the community browser https://browse.feddit.de/ (hosted by the German main lemmy, but otherwise unrelated)

    Then you can copy the link you need to search for in your instance, wait 2-10 seconds for the link to show up, click it, and then subscribe (this process is in dire need of streamlining)

    Edit: typo