Maybe I'm not understanding something. I'm on midwest.social and I'm trying to join [email protected], but it's not showing up in the search results when I change from local to all.
Yet I can browse to https://infosec.pub/c/askanamerican just fine.
As with /r/411 this is where you ask what Community you're looking for but not finding. Perhaps a bit more helpful now that some communities are only found on certain instances.
Found/new community announcements - there are numerous "announcement type communities - see https://lemmy.ca/post/612532
There is also [email protected]
Before you request There are several resources available to find communities and resources and these have been pinned to the top.
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Maybe I'm not understanding something. I'm on midwest.social and I'm trying to join [email protected], but it's not showing up in the search results when I change from local to all.
Yet I can browse to https://infosec.pub/c/askanamerican just fine.
The downside to all this federated business I'm afraid. Usually it works... sometimes it doesn't.
The home server of askanamerican is infosec.pub and that instance IS on midwest.social's list of "federated instances" here: https://midwest.social/instances
Usually when you search for a new community/magazine, YOUR instance tries to reach out to the other instance and say "hey, do you have 'askanamerican'? if so, gimme the info, Ima gonna subscribe to that, and give me the last half dozen posts to start my user(s) off until I catch up."
Sometimes this fails for whatever reason - misconfiguration, traffic, instance getting slammed with new accounts and flood of new posts, who knows.
Infosec.hub isn't the largest but its not the smallest. Tho, I know the admin @[email protected] runs several other instances of other federated platforms at various infosec
domains, they're rather busy.
I'd recommend trying again in a few hours, or tomorrow.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!