Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.
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1Hefs7miXS5ff5Ck5xvmjKjXf5242KzRtK0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A0141taVyY6e1xApqKyMVDRVxJ76sPkfZhALLTjRvVKpaAh2pBd4wv9RgYj1tSPrx8wc6iE1uWUfjtQdTmTy2FGMeChGVKPQuVaddr1q858t89l2ym6xmrugjs0af9cslfwvnvsh2xxp6x4dcez7pf5tushkp4wl7zxfhm2djp6gq60dk4cmc7seaza5p3slx0sakjutmThe first time someone on an instance enters the name of a community, is when the instance goes and looks for it. Until then, that particular community is not federated to the local instance, and it is as if it does not exist.
Searching for a community in Jerboa, does not seem trigger this establishing of a connection.
I wonder how many communities on smaller (or even larger) instances there are that people just don't know about because they didn't know to look for them.
Yep, sadly that happens, currently I just go to my instance's website, search it there (wait a few seconds because it takes a while) and subscribe there. I'll see it reflected in Jerboa soon enough.
I've noticed the same on the web UI. Searching a non-local community more often doesn't work than does.
Search by community URL instead https://lemmy.tld/c/community
I'm on latte.isnot.coffee and I just searched both [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) and https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa and didn't get results for either. Neither has a message saying that there are no search results, but neither shows any results either.
Search by the URL https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa, it's faster, if you search by [email protected] then you need to search again but only the community name jerboa
Like here "Method One: Search by URL"
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/
Type in your search query, hit "Search", refresh the page. Or don't. Just wait a couple seconds.
I can sometimes get them to populate if I do it twice or change it from Communities to All in the search filters. Other times, it just takes an extra 5-10 seconds after returning no results.
I've seen both of those behaviors as well, but more often than those, it just never displays results.
I've found this mainly happens when trying to search for communities on other instances
I'm guessing this arises from that community not being shared with your home instance yet? Or some similar desync issue.
Yup. Instances don't start syncing until someone requests it.