Community Discoverability Inconsistencies (piefed.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by 9limmer@piefed.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I'm using Interstellar with a PieFed account, and I've found communities quickly and easily (including many on this instance) as soon as I start typing partial words. But I just discovered that skateboarding@lemmy.world and rollerskating@lemmy.world aren't returned in searches unless I type out "!skateboarding@lemmy.world" in full. I only discovered these communities exist when I switched to Jerboa and my Lemmy account. Is this a quirk of federation, a mod setting, or something else?

I'm new to the Fediverse so please be gentle. 😂

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[-] olorin99@kbin.earth 12 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure this is just a quirk of federation. The way federation works is that a community needs at least 1 subscriber on an instance before content is sent across, so it's likely no one on your instance had subscribed yet.