I'm having trouble searching for / subscribing to some small communities on small instances. They don't show up in the search. It doesn't matter whether I use the community name or the. !xxx@yyy.zzz format.
I don't know if this is a Jerboa issue or due to my "home" instance or a federation problem.
I'd like to both solve my problem and better understand how federation search works. Anyone have some insight?
4 Comments
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 3y
The initial search doesn't work in Jerboa. You have to do it in the web interface of your instance. Search once for !xxx@yyy.zzz on web and after that you do a normal community search in Jerboa for xxx
PrometheusG@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I've had the same issue, but in browser; not using Jerboa. I tried from another instance and it worked. Other communities on the instance worked okay, so it was just that one specific community not working from that one instance.
Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Someone educated me the other day and taught me to use a URL of yourinstance/c/communityname@otherinstance
That seems to work better for me after doing the search you suggested. Takes a minute or two though for it to start showing. From there you can subscribe and then it will show in the app.
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/45475