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Unable to link new communties via search (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SickIcarus to c/main

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Edit/Update: Searching by !community@instance fails, searching by the full url works.

Original post: So if my understanding is correct, a Lemmy instance won’t be aware of a community on another instance until the first time it is searched from your home instance.

If that understanding is correct, then the process does not seem to be working from sh.itjust.works.

Examples:

[email protected]

To try and get these communities visible from sh.itjust.works, I’m entering the search term as shown above into the Communties search field and smashing Search a few times. Normally there would be no results, but if you then search for just the community name it shows up as being connected - that’s no longer happening.

If I am misunderstanding or doing something wrong please let me know.

Edit: Searching for the entire url seems to work sometimes

Example: https://forum.rhombik.com/c/3d_printing - no joy

https://lemmy.world/c/makerstuff - worked!

https://kbin.social/m/3DPrinting - worked!

Edit: it appears the problem with [email protected] is on their side - found a post where they were misconfigured and only federating with two other instances, and have ddos shields up.

https://forum.rhombik.com/post/109?scrollToComments=true

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[–] Hanabie 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope they get this sorted. Fragmented communities would be fine, if one could find all of them in one go.

[–] SickIcarus 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Lots of growing pains! That’s ok though, it’ll all get sorted. And a silver lining might be that these growing pains help filter out the low-effort riff-raff maybe.

[–] Hanabie 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sure they'll smoothen it all out in time. I expect another wave of users come July, and then one more once old.reddit and RES are dead.

[–] SickIcarus 2 points 1 year ago

I expect the same. 🤞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having the same problem.

[–] SickIcarus 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know it’s not just me, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

+1 same problem. Not sure if its sorted out yet. Still unable to join/connect.

[–] VinS 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've put them all in my subscribed feed. I can see them from there.

[–] SickIcarus 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How? I was able to get subscribed to [email protected] and [email protected] once they showed up in the community search (after searching by the url), but I still can’t see [email protected] in order to subscribe to it.

[–] VinS 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry not rhombik.

https://forum.rhombik.com/instances seems to be linked only on some instances : (as the time of writting) lemmy.ml mydomain.ml lemmy.world

From what I understand, it may be because they work with whitelisting, or because it's too young and not federated/cached yet.

Compare this with : https://sh.itjust.works/instances

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The list includes kbin.social now, but I still can’t get it to show on kbin no matter how I format my searches or urls.

[–] SickIcarus 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I just saw a post over there, the admin fucked up his configs. Hopefully he gets it sorted soon if he’s moving the “official” /r/3dprinting sub to his own instance. 🤷‍♂️

I updated my main post, looks like searching by !community@instance fails, searching by the full url works, which is not what default sidebar directions say to do lol.

[–] darkwing_duck 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Rhombik sees sh.itjust.works, but sh.itjust.works doesn't see forum.rhombik.com? Why?

[–] VinS 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I checked they both didn't see each other

[–] darkwing_duck 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rhombik sees us: https://forum.rhombik.com/instances

[–] VinS 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's better than earlier. There was only 3 instances seen (named earlier in-line). Can we see their posts / subscribe on their channels now?

[–] darkwing_duck 2 points 1 year ago

Nope.