Lemmy does not automatically discover communities from other peers, you have to search for them and have at least one user subscribe.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I apologize but I am not following.
On my instance I cannot search other instances.
But here on blahaj I can.
I tried adding instances but I cannot search those (that were added) either.
for clarity, you are searching for communities, right? search for "[email protected]"
It can take 10 seconds, and also fail, so refresh the page.
If it doesn't work, then likely your nginx config is blocking incoming federation activity. There are some closed issues on Github/lemmy project.
YOOO,.. I have no idea what changed. But I finally could connect to Cats cries in fluffy kitty pictures
Thank you!!!!!!!
[resolved]
To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.
- lemmy instances are not automatically connected
- at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
- to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example:
[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up - click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
- ok... Now you have 1 extra community... What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it's terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.
Thanks self!
You're welcome self!
(I'm such a dork)