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Am I doing something wrong? It seems to me that we ought to be able to find communities from other instances by searching for them, but I don't really see much when I search. Sometimes some communities show up, but it seems to be only communities I've visited before or something?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My understanding is that searching creates a connection to the other instances, and community content should start appearing after you search, but only new posts / comments. There isn't a historical sync across instances from what I understand.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

https://lemmyverse.net/communities is a handy site for finding communities. You need to search for their full url the first time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you could let me know what you’re searching for I can take a closer look, but essentially on the search page the fastest way to locate a community on another server is to type the url of that community (for example, https://mtgzone.com/c/mtg) or it’s Lemmy address ([email protected]).

I’ll write up a getting started guide as well on this and searching/connecting/interacting with other Lemmy websites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) I find this comment, but not the actual community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Well, then.. I guess I got pranked when I found that comment by searching for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it might be something up with specifically mtgzone.com? I've made comments in [email protected], but I don't see them unless I specifically come through my "home" instance of lemmy.ml? Unless I'm misunderstanding?

[–] attemptX 2 points 2 years ago

Same here, my account is on lemmy.world and don't appear when I go to mtgzone.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A guide would be great . Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That one I do get results for

(alrhough sometimes it will say no results and then if you click next to go the next page it will look again and find it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see. There's probably some caching for the search function that doesn't contain absolutely everything at any given time (since that is rather intensive).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can see at the bottom of mtgzone's modlog ( https://mtgzone.com/modlog ) that the admins removed that community. Idk why, possibly to avoid confusion, maybe they see this and can answer.

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