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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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[–] 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.