Why can I find communities that exist from some Lemmy instances but not others?
Why can I find communities that exist from some Lemmy instances but not others?
How does the search function work and why does it sometimes not work from different instances when searching All?
In other words -
- I search for a community that exists on Lemmy instance A (e.g. midwest.social) from Lemmy instance B (e.g. lemmy.ml) and it finds it.
- I search for that same community from Lemmy instance C (e.g. lemmy.one), and it doesn't find it.
- Lemmy instance A, B, and C are all connected / federated.
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Because every instance fetches other instance's communities when you first type that name in a search.
It means, when you search for "[email protected]" (mind "!" at the begining), you should reload page after some time and search again. In that period your instance will fetch it from midwest.social and show in community search.
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