I’m new to lemmy.
When I search for [email protected] I get a No results. error. It does exist. Other discuss.tchncs.de communities come up when I search just that string.
Is it something I’m doing wrong?
EDIT: Working now. It seems it just needs time to reach out and do things. Not an intuitive experience at all – feels broken – but it eventually does function.
It can take a little while for your home instance to federate with the remote server and find/cache the community in question. When in doubt, search for the full URL of the community, that’s what works the most consistently for me.
Something wrong with the federation? The subscriber count for different communities also seem a whole lot lower here than on other Lemmy instances. https://lemmy.sdf.org/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 for example states that [email protected] only has 83 subscribers.
I think it can take a while for it to sync up after you do the initial search.
