The community does not show up in search, and when I enter the full link (!community@ instance.com) , it seems to treat it as a string to search for rather than an address.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    While your initial question still applies (I tried searching other obscure remote communities on Sync and couldn’t find them) I think in the particular case you brought up there is some federation issue between lemmy.world and Kbin.social. Might be related to the DDOS attacks on .world recently, who knows (there’s been federation issues before).

    I tried finding it on my lemmy.world account and didn’t, but it shows up fine when searching on feddit.nu. So that seems to be a lemmy.world-issue rather than a Sync-issue.

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      1 year ago

      Is sync relying on lemmy.world even when my home instance is somewhere else? Doesn’t make sense to me, but I’m not familiar with the sync architecture

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        1 year ago

        I just assumed that was where your Lemmy account was that you used to search. Did you search from Sync without being logged in? It wouldn’t surprise me if lemmy.world is the default instance, since that’s where ljdawson is registered.

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          1 year ago

          No, I’m logged in. And it’s a small enough instance that I’m sure nobody’s messing with it or defederating it.

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            1 year ago

            Can you find the community when searching for it from your Lemmy instance in a browser?

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              1 year ago

              Yeah, used the link to access it in the browser from my lemmy account and subscribed. It showed up in sync shortly after

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                1 year ago

                That’s been my experience too, browser is still the only reliable way to initiate discovery of an unfederated remote community as far as I know.

                EDIT: actually it might be working on Voyager

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                  1 year ago

                  Aren’t communities federated or not on a instance by instance basis, though? Did I get that wrong?

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                    1 year ago

                    No that is correct. I was merely correcting that finding an unfederated remote community works not only in browser but also on the Voyager app.