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Missing search results when looking for federated communities (at Lemmy) (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Hi all,

Today I found out that there is a community over at lemmy I would very much like to join (via Kbin of course). I had searched for that community earlier through Kbin using the 'Local and Federated' option when searching but I hadn't seen any results.

This made me wonder how many communities I thought didn't exist in the threadiverse actually do. I searched for another community by visiting Lemmy directly and lo and behold, that was indeed the case. These communities exist over at Lemmy but I cannot find them using the Magazine search, even if I select 'Local and federated'.

Is there a way to search for/add/subscribe to communities at Lemmy, or elsewhere at the fedi/threadiverse from Kbin? Am I missing some feature or hack?

Thanks in advance for any tips

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[–] ghostatnoon@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's usually easier to search via external sites (https://lemmyverse.net/ and https://browse.feddit.de/ are the ones I've been using). You'll still have to manually copy over the magazine name in order to subscribe for it, but you'll get a wider variety of results without having to go to each instance individually.

[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the tip, that's a good workaround