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I'm trying to search for a community that definitely exists: but it doesn't show up in search (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by dragontamer to c/lemmyworld

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[email protected] clearly exists (see https://programming.dev/c/programming), but I can't seem to find it in Lemmy.world's search bar.

I see that "someone needs to search" for a community for it to appear in the search bar. Furthermore, if I go to "lemmy.world/c/[email protected]", I can see and subscribe to that instance just fine.

I'm just worried about discoverability. How was I supposed to even discover [email protected] if this instance didn't know about it?

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[–] PriorProject 6 points 1 year ago

Check out point 2 of the "find and subscribe" section of: https://lemmy.world/post/9296.

In short, if you're the first on your instance to discover a community, you have to search for it in a particular way to "teach" your instance about the community. After that it shows up in /communities/ and anyone can subscribe the simple way. That doc explains what to do. It sounds like someone else already taught lemmy.word about this community, so you should be good. But still good to know what to do to fix it yourself next time.