I have a lemmy account on lemmy.sdf.org
When searching for communities to join I can see several in the list from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org
but while searching for some communities that I know exist on lemmy.ml or beehaw.org I am getting no results
will a community from instance A only appear in search results on instance B if a user from instance B has already manually subscribed to that specific community from instance A?
basically, there is no scraping of ‘all available’ communities even when two instances know of each others existence? only ‘specific communities’ are indexed when a user has manually found/subscribed?
Try searching with the syntax !communityname@instance.ml and maybe having to click search 2-3 times. It should then pop up and you can open it in your instance and subscribe. I believe this needs to be done by a user before a given instance will federate with that specific community, afterwards people could simply navigate to homeinstan.ce/c/communityname@instance.ml