I have run into similar issues. I am assuming Lemmy is... Struggling with load right now
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The way I do it is I search on https://browse.feddit.de/ and then if I find a community I like I copy and paste the URL for it into the search field at my instance.
Further weirdness: It still doesn't resolve by URL for me on lemmy.one, but now that @moonleay@feddit.de was able to find it, I can get results back with the string "no man" -- but both are listed as having zero subscribers??
That 0 subscribers thingy is probably just a bug or it hasn't updated yet.
Yeah. The subscriber count it shows is the number of subscribers on your local instance, in this case lemmy.one (which would of course be 0 since it was just discovered)
The only way to see the true subscriber count at the moment is by looking on the instance where the community is hosted.
If you know the name of the community, I found success going through the address bar in your browswer, as opposed to search.
For example: lemmy.one/c/whatever@whatever.instance
Right, I did that -- steps 5, 6, and 7.
In the lemmy.one search, try putting your search in the format of !videos@lemmy.ml and you should be able to find them. Essentiallyust separate the community name and the domain with the @ and have the ! at the beginning. This should work but you may need to give the search 10-15 seconds of additional time to find the community. I noticed that it would give me "No Results" but then the community would pop up a few seconds later. After this click on the community > sidebar > subscribe
So I also tried that, step 7, and I still don't get any results, days later.
I must have missed that in your OP. It could be server issues due to the increased traffic but other than that I dunno since I'm new here myself.