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Having trouble finding communities? Here's some tips. (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago by 2dollarsim to c/support

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I just joined the NZ lemmy here, because Lemmy.world was slow. This instance is much faster for me, but when searching for communities, many that I was subscribed to with my lemmyworld account didn't show in the search results.

I fixed this by manually finding it in the address bar, like this:

https://lemmy.nz/c/linux@lemmy.world

And this will work for all communities, just replacing the appropriate parts:

https://lemmy.nz/c/[communityname]@[instancename]

Then you can subscribe and it will show in your 'Subscribed to communities' on the main page. (sometimes I have to refresh for all to show up).

This might be a known issue at the moment, but I've only been on Lemmy for like 3 days so idk

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[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah stuff like this is not the best experience at the moment. One thing to be careful of is that if you try to visit the URL directly, e.g. https://lemmy.nz/c/linux@lemmy.world, then it will not work if someone from lemmy.nz has not already searched for the community to trigger the federation.

Officially you should search for the community like so: !linux@lemmy.world

This works for me when searching in the search box, but there is a weird thing where Lemmy will say "no results" then a couple of seconds later it will show up. If you're the first person searching, it can be 5-10 seconds (maybe longer if the other instance is under heavy load).

The community search result is also just one thin line, so can be hard to see if you get post results as well which are a lot taller. You can change the filter to only search for communities, but there was previously a bug where if you were the first person to search for that community then it wouldn't show up if you filtered by communities, only if you set it to All. Not sure if that's fixed yet.

[–] z2k_ 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve actually noticed better results if you search for the url instead of the !community-name.

ie. search for “https://lemmy.world/c/linux”

Edit: Bonus is that it also works for searching kbin magazines.

You can search: “https://fedia.io/m/firefox” for example.