[SOLVED] Communities not visible in search
[SOLVED] Communities not visible in search
Let me give you an example:
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there is a community on lemmy.world (whereisthisplace) - https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace
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I go on lemmy.ml and search for
whereisthisplace -
my search parameters are: {Communities} {All} {Top All Time}, {Community: All} {Creator: All}
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but when I search for (eg.)
AppleI get "[email protected]"
is it because no one is subscribed form this istance?
I've had similar issues, mostly with recently created communities on other instances and I couldn't quite pin down the conditions causing it. You can include the @instanceurl suffix in the search and sometimes it helps, but the workaround that works best is to access the community you want directly manipulating the URL, so in your example http://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]
My workflow has been:
- search browse.feddit.de to discover the most popular communities I'd like to join
- type their URL in lemmy.world and subscribe
Well that is interesting.
- search for
whereisthisplace= no results - search for
[email protected]= no results - search for
https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace= no results - search (again) for
whereisthisplace= get a hit
(additonaly)
(in private browser)
- search for
whereisthisplace= get a hit
It's like lemmy.ml "created" a link (when I did search for
https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace) and now it shows itNotes:
- sorry to creators of
whereisthisplaceto use you community as example - I did a test with a different community and the results are the same
- search for
@thirteenthfrog you need to search for the community link, in this case, you should search for "https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace"
Well yeah, but lets say that I just want to search for
whereisthisplaceover all instances and see where this community is (even on multiple ones). The only other approach is to go to each instance and search for it.But my question still remains - why some communities are shown (eg.: Apple) and some are not (eg.: whereisthisplace)
Because someone on your instance has already searched for the community directly or subscribed to it so it has been federated to your instance.
Search the URL and will show
https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]Like here on "Method One: Search by URL"
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/you would need to search this "[email protected]" in the search box. this will bring that community into lemmy.ml.