Why do some communities on other instances not appear in a search ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JustineSmithies@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I've recently joined lemmy.world and have started searching and subscribing to various communities some are on lemmy.ml but when I search for voidlinux it returns nothing.? Yet I know it exists on lemmy.ml and I can see other communities on there such as Linux. 🤔

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[-] splitcircus@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have the same problem. I can't find some communities when 'All' is selected.

Seems to me that is communities creator fault. Maybe they didn't do federation to other instances.

[-] anders@rytter.me 1 points 1 year ago

@splitcircus @JustineSmithies can federation be disabled when creating a community? is it enabled by default?

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Problem with that is that there are lots of new instances, hard to keep on top of that all the time.

There's a useful community called New Communities (or similar) - I'll add a link here shortly.

EDIT - https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities

Also, very useful is https://browse.feddit.de, which lets you search for communities across all instances.

[-] splitcircus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've actually found the problem!

FIX:

While searching for community change sorting to 'New' and then it appears, any other sorting (Top All Time, Top Day, Old, etc.) just doesn't show some new communities.