Boost For Lemmy @lemmy.world Paradachshund @lemmy.today 1y ago

Search isn't global?

I've been trying to get the app setup today, and I'm struggling to find communities through search. It seems like the search is only checking communities on my instance, not everywhere? Not sure if I'm missing something but I can't find a way to search the broader fediverse.

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I use this to search: https://lemmyverse.net/
I think search is limited to communities that any user of your instance has subscribed to.

You want this. https://browse.feddit.de/
- Oh weird. Is that a framework limitation of Lemmy? Seems undesirable. Thanks for the response.
  
  That is a Lemmy is ran by thousands of individuals who do not want to pay out of pocket to allow every server in the fediverse to waste their resources running search queries all day limitation.
When I search for e.g. "iama", I get several communities from several instances. Seems to work for me. Maybe your instance isn't federating correctly? Or maybe you're looking for niche communities that simply don't exist anywhere? Do other clients/apps work?
- What you see when you search, and what everyone around you sees, is different and depends on what instances your instance talks to.

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