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So... still wrapping my head around the whole concept of of federated spaces. By way of comparison, if I go to Reddit, and I search for subreddits, it searches all of reddit, and pulls up the relevant information. If I do a search here, am I searching ONLY the Lemmy.ca server, or does that search ALL of the Lemmy fediverse? If not, how does one do that? CAN one do that? Sorry for the newbie questions. I want to make the move from Twitter/Reddit to Mastodon/Lemmy, but I want to get it so I can indoctrinate my over cautious, set-in-their-ways friends. :)
I could be wrong, but I believe when you search it searches all constant that has been "federated" to the server your searching on. in other words, any remote communities that are subscribed by users on this instance will be searched. something along those lines, anyways, haha.
Thank you for your reply! See, that's what I thought, but I tried a few searches that I was sure would pull up a community--things like "fashion" or "volkswagen" or "Beatles" and I come up with no search results. I'd buy that those communities may not exist in a new(er) Canadian-focused server, but across the whole Fediverse of servers? I dunno. I still think there's things about this place that I don't get. Ah well, in time, I'll learn I'm sure. Thank you again for taking the time to reply.
I just ran a quick test. I found the fashion community from lemmy.ml (by searching directly on their site), and subscribed to it. now when you search here for
fashionit shows up. so you might be better off searching some of the bigger instances directly, then subscribing to them from here.Oh... so you need to search directly on other instances to find communities. Hmm... bit of a shot in the dark there, but I'll give it a try. Thank you for the guidance!
yeah, basically. if no one from this instance is subscribed to a remote community then it won't show up in the search.
Hold up, so if anyone as a member of this instance has subscribed to any community outside of this instance, it becomes searchable from within this instance, while if the community is entirely unknown within this instance, you need to find it 'out there' somewhere and subscribe whereupon you're good (and it can then be found by any member of this instance)? That's my understanding based on this discussion, anyway. :)