Noob question about federation and communities
Noob question about federation and communities
On my main (@Choco617@lemmy.world), I moderate !technicaldeathmetal@lemmy.world. I thought I’d kinda federate my existence on the platform by creating this alt on lemmy.ml, but when I search communities, while I can find some other lemmy.world ones (validating that .ml/.world federation is working as I understand it), technicaldeathmetal isn’t found. Am I doing something dumb as a user? As a mod? Have I misunderstood the intent of this instance, and I’d be better off trying the same thing from elsewhere? TIA
are you searching "!technicaldeathmetal@lemmy.world" (no quotes)? make sure you wait a bit on the search results; it takes longer to pull in new communities
Thanks for helping!
- I tried exactly that search
- Other lemmy.world communities (e.g. !metal@lemmy.world, !metalmemes@lemmy.world) don’t seem to need any special searching syntax
- I created the community 2 weeks ago
Any ideas?
Edit: you can see in the auto-links in our comments, my community returns “couldnt_find_community”, my counterexamples both work fine.