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[SOLVED] Communities not visible in search (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thirteenthfrog@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let me give you an example:

there is a community on lemmy.world (whereisthisplace) - https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace
I go on lemmy.ml and search for whereisthisplace
my search parameters are: {Communities} {All} {Top All Time}, {Community: All} {Creator: All}
but when I search for (eg.) Apple I get "Apple@lemmy.world"

is it because no one is subscribed form this istance?

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[–] thirteenthfrog@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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 whereisthisplace to use you community as example
I did a test with a different community and the results are the same

[–] Fabiozeh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] roombobcat@lemmy.roombob.cat 1 points 1 year ago

you would need to search this "!whereisthisplace@lemmy.world" in the search box. this will bring that community into lemmy.ml.

[–] retiolus@mamot.fr 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@thirteenthfrog you need to search for the community link, in this case, you should search for "https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace"

[–] thirteenthfrog@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] Fluffysquash@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Because someone on your instance has already searched for the community directly or subscribed to it so it has been federated to your instance.