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I'm noticing a much smaller list of communities here (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago by Whitt to c/support

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Hello, When I go to communities and list all, I can only see two pages of communities. If I search for a community I know about there's a good chance it does not show until I go to https://lemmy.nz/c/group@instance

Once I do that I can subscribe to the community and it's behaving normally.

Is this an effect of it being federated?

Thanks

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[–] Whitt 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And more interesting, parenting@lemmy.ml exists at lemmy.ml, however even trying to go directly to the community on this instance fails.

[–] Dave 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe searching is required. You can't just skip to https://lemmy.nz/c/parenting@lemmy.ml

However, once one (logged in) user from lemmy.nz has searched for it by URL or as !parenting@lemmy.ml, then you can visit that URL.

I've just searched for this community and it's now showing fine, but when I first searched it had the pause on "No results" like it hadn't federated yet. You should be able to join it now no problem.

[–] z2k_ 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like as lemmy matures, this is a process that a client app can automate. eg. If given a lemmy community url check if it exists, if it does then search for it on the users intance, then retry periodically until it's available.

[–] Whitt 2 points 1 year ago

That does make sense, thanks for having a look.