Searching for a community doesn't work?

I've tried a few times to search for !sysadmin@discuss.tchncs.de, which seems to be the right way to find remote communities and the two servers should be federated with each other. I'm getting no results. Am I doing something wrong?

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theterrasque@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 3y

I've noticed that sometimes it takes a long time to show up in results, and sometimes not show at all but worked 10-15 minutes later.

I think servers are overloaded atm

aliens@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 3y

I've been following this thread because I was having the same issue:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1210434

What works for me is doing a search, getting the no results found, then searching again immediately and it shows on the second attempt

psudo@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I've found I often have to search the full url for it to properly be found. I think once someone on your instance is subscribed to the community the way you're searching should work, but I'm unsure.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What would be the full url?

psudo@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y

In this case it would be https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/sysadmin.

21trillionsats@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I’ve heard you need to link to it from a post with an exclamation mark for it to work sometimes if it’s obscure… I also cannot find https://lemmy.ml/c/usa

21trillionsats@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 3y (3 replies)

!usa

21trillionsats@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

now it worked! Yay, now can I get access to https://lemmy.ml/c/marvelsnap ? !marvelsnap@lemmy.ml

21trillionsats@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Seems to be working, within 24 hours that community becomes available. Can I do the same for https://lemmy.ml/c/aviation