sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works Trollivier @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

I can't find any communities from other instances in the search engine. What am I doing wrong?

I tried every ways to find communities from other instances. Searching for the url, searching for [email protected], with the filter "all", and I always get no results.

Those are communities that I find in other instances and would like to join. Nothing works.

How do you do it??

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This post explains how to discover remote communities (which can be very non-intuitive), have a read through it and I think you'll be able to get yourself sorted: https://lemmy.world/post/9296
- Yeah I tried pretty much all the options for joining a community in a remote instance and I can't get any results. I don't know what to do.
  
  Oh, I guess I didn't read your OP closely enough. You did seem to hit the key points. I'm not sure what's wrong and don't have further suggestions. I have to think it's something simple you're missing, otherwise we'd be hearing a flood of similar reports... but what you've described should work. Sorry you're having trouble.
What am I doing wrong?
- Oh, I see it... the type dropdown in the upper-left underneath the word Search is set to communities (which... intuitively seems like it should work and in my opinion the fact that it doesn't is a bug). You need to change it from communities to all. I thought from your OP you had done this, but you must have been referring to one of the other boxes with all as a value... there are a couple there.
  
  Technically, this step is described in step 2c of https://lemmy.world/post/9296, but it's so confusing and unintuitive that you have to read it so perfectly and precisely and get no feedback when it goes wrong. Fixup your type dropdown and you'll be good though.
  
  Yeah I was able to find some. Unintuitive indeed.
  
  Now I can't subscribe to the communities I find cause I can't login on my instance. Spinning button forever, can't login. And can't subscribe through Jerboa app 😑
- I have noticed it being particularly buggy on a mobile page browser. I think the mobile browsers are more aggressive about caching data and not fully refreshing pages.
  
  I sat down and did it on a desktop last night. I would spam search and wait a bit. Some particularly overloaded instances took longer (ie:lemmy.ml) then waited.
  
  I basically had this page open with my instance url setup for the links to be properly formatted. https://lemmyverse.net/
  
  Then had 2 or 3 duplicate tabs open for searching. I would go through one. Spam search. Go find another and do similar in the other tab. Then go check the first etc etc.
  
  Also lemmy.world was particularly buggy I suspect they are overloaded. Along with lemmy.ml for subscribing.
  
  That would make sense. I haven't been able to login on my instance today. All I get is the round arrow that spins forever. I tried in several browsers, couldn't login. I only have access here because of Jerboa.
- Just type masseffect
Try this https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Just found out a while ago that it varies by instance, e.g. for kbin.social, it's not good to add the exclamation mark and just leave it as community@instance bare.

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