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Subscribing to communities on other instances when they can't be found from searching All? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DarraignTheSane@lemmy.one to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] qantravon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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/community@community.server

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.