Let me give you an example:
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there is a community on lemmy.world (whereisthisplace) - https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace
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I go on lemmy.ml and search for
whereisthisplace -
my search parameters are: {Communities} {All} {Top All Time}, {Community: All} {Creator: All}
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but when I search for (eg.)
AppleI get “Apple@lemmy.world”
is it because no one is subscribed form this istance?
you would need to search this “!whereisthisplace@lemmy.world” in the search box. this will bring that community into lemmy.ml.
I’ve had similar issues, mostly with recently created communities on other instances and I couldn’t quite pin down the conditions causing it. You can include the @instanceurl suffix in the search and sometimes it helps, but the workaround that works best is to access the community you want directly manipulating the URL, so in your example http://lemmy.ml/c/whereisthisplace@lemmy.world
My workflow has been:
- search browse.feddit.de to discover the most popular communities I’d like to join
- type their URL in lemmy.world and subscribe
Well that is interesting.
- search for
whereisthisplace= no results - search for
whereisthisplace@lemmy.world= no results - search for
https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace= no results - search (again) for
whereisthisplace= get a hit
(additonaly)
(in private browser)
- search for
whereisthisplace= get a hit
It’s like lemmy.ml “created” a link (when I did search for https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace) and now it shows it
Notes:
- sorry to creators of
whereisthisplaceto use you community as example - I did a test with a different community and the results are the same
@thirteenthfrog you need to search for the community link, in this case, you should search for “https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace”
Well yeah, but lets say that I just want to search for whereisthisplace over all instances and see where this community is (even on multiple ones).
The only other approach is to go to each instance and search for it.
But my question still remains - why some communities are shown (eg.: Apple) and some are not (eg.: whereisthisplace)
