What are you entering in the search bar?
Either paste the full URL (https://reddthat.com/c/rts) or write [email protected]. You might need to click the next & prev buttons a couple of times for it to show up, especially for smaller communities.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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Yes, when you are the first to look up a community from another instance, it can take a minute for the server to go get that new community. I just leave the search in a tab for a bit and come back to refresh it in 30 seconds or so.
Its a little tricky.
write [email protected]
That's what I was doing bit it didn't work. Now it's working, and I believe my instance was having temporary issues. Thanks for your answer :)
Your instance doesn't have the search tools of every instance far and wide. It only searches within a set of communities indexed because it's members subscribe there. Make sense? That means to find it the first time, you paste the FULL link https://reddthat.com/c/rts into your instance search and wait for a few seconds until it finds it manually. Click through and subscribe. From that point on other users in your instance will find it by searching.
I find it easiest to do this on the browser and not on the app for now as there's many teething issues around it, and you're not the only one to go through this little hump. Took me a bit to wrap my head around too. It's a bit like searching for a contact in your address book on Gmail. You have to have typed it in manually the first time and sent one mail, from then on you can just type it in search and Gmail can find it.
Just search for the URL of the community. It worked for me.
It appears that the URL search may not work for non-lemmy communities like kbin. Searching for !name@server seems to work for all communities.
Yes, it finally worked. Apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown.
Edit: apparently, the servers are experiencing a little slowdown. Typing [email protected] is the search field returned nothing at first but finally worked at some random moment after spamming ':D
I wouldn't suggest spamming the button so much as being patient and maybe trying a few times (spaced out). You're just adding to the load when you're spamming the button.
I do find the search interface on 0.18 to be a bit more user friendly which is nice tho.
On Beehaw I can choose at the top from subscribed, local, or all. Local just gives be Beehaw threads, all is everything they're federated with... such as your post.
Not quite. "All" only includes content from communities, that at least one local user is subscribed to. When I create a community on my instance, it does NOT instantly show up on all other federated instances, nor do posts to it.
For a community to get federated over to another instance, at least one person must specifically enter its url or exact name in search, and sub to it.
I'm just using a parameterized Firefox bookmark and it works well for now: https://lemmy.world/post/276633
(also see my comment there on %S vs %s, you're likely to prefer the former)
Excellent resource, thank you. I was searching by shorthand, but apparently the problem was on the server side. Now it's working.