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I just ran a quick test. I found the fashion community from lemmy.ml (by searching directly on their site), and subscribed to it. now when you search here for
fashionit shows up. so you might be better off searching some of the bigger instances directly, then subscribing to them from here.Oh... so you need to search directly on other instances to find communities. Hmm... bit of a shot in the dark there, but I'll give it a try. Thank you for the guidance!
yeah, basically. if no one from this instance is subscribed to a remote community then it won't show up in the search.
Hold up, so if anyone as a member of this instance has subscribed to any community outside of this instance, it becomes searchable from within this instance, while if the community is entirely unknown within this instance, you need to find it 'out there' somewhere and subscribe whereupon you're good (and it can then be found by any member of this instance)? That's my understanding based on this discussion, anyway. :)
also, this might help too: https://browse.feddit.de/
yes, that's exactly it!