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searching for communities that exist but haven't been cached (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by andyquest@sh.itjust.works to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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My biggest gripe with *lemmy is the community search only brings up communities that have already been cached by the instance you're on

At first I would search for communities and be shocked that there's so many that don't exist until I realized I have to manually go on my browser and type myserverurl/c/communityIFoundSomewhereElse@ItsInstance if im the first one from my instance to want to sub to that community

Is there a site that can search all communities that this app can communicate to, then force my instance to cache from a search result?

Would make this app really stand out

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[-] CoachDom 22 points 1 year ago

It's not app specific - that's just how the Lemmy code works at the moment.

For this specific reason, Lemmy integrated search feature is fundamentally broken at the moment, so you should be using https://lemmyverse.net/

When I first joined my instance I couldn't see any Xbox communities so I created one. It got a little following, but then I found out there were already two communities literally called Xbox but no one from my instance joined before, so I couldn't see them.

[-] cjoll4@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit, you just blew my mind. Thank you so much for sharing this. Turns out there are so many communities for topics I've been searching for that I couldn't find before.

It has been such a fucking frustrating experience migrating to Lemmy from Reddit. Nothing is easy or intuitive. Nothing just works straight out of the box.

EDIT: Case in point, I found a community on lemmyverse, clicked the link to open it in Jerboa, and it stuck me in a loop where pushing the back arrow did nothing but load the same page over and over again. Had to kill the app and re-launch it. Yay.

[-] CoachDom 7 points 1 year ago

It's very early days of Lemmy so there is a lot to sort out but the community is great ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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