Some feedback to see if this is similar for others. First I tried searching 'skypictures' and only this post came up. Then I tried '[email protected]' and got nothing. Lastly I tried 'sky pictures' and it appeared, but with only one post instead of two.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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It seems like a hit or miss. Also, some instances take a while to sync all the posts and comments.
I really hope devs fix this.
It shows up just fine for me on lemmy.world when I search for it!
It will only show up on other instances when a user there searches for it manually.
At least one person on each instance needs to search for it. (While logged in) This will make the instance "discover" your community.
They can either take the full url, https://lemmy.ml/c/skypictures or [email protected] and paste it in their instance's search bar.
They're working on making this a bit more automatic but for now that's how it is.
If this is true does this mean I need to create a second user for myself on my personal instance to get it to register other instances/communities? I can't find anything in search right now that isn't local, no matter how many times I search for something by keyword or URL. I'm loving Lemmy but the federation/cross-instance search is pretty opaque, which is frustrating.
I'm running my own instance and federation through search discovery is working fine for me. So maybe an unrelated issue