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Search for [email protected] in Beehaw's search and it should come up. This initial search would cause federation.
However, if the instance you're searching for has been explicitly defederated with by Beehaw, you won't be able to see it here at all. We're federated with that instance already though, I thought, so it's strange that it wasn't showing up with other search terms.
Does that federation include all communities from that instance? If so, I should've had no problem, since lemmy.world is the 2nd biggest instance and was most likely already federated. I do seem to be able to see other communities from there I think, but idk. Searching for that only turns up the comments on this post lmao
The sync between federated instances happens on a per-community basis, so they won’t show up in search until someone has searched for the community once. Depending on instance load, it may take some time for the initial sync of comments to happen after the first subscription.
I searched for it before posting the original comment and it appeared.
It works now, thanks! I'm not sure why it didn't before but well
We’re federated with that instance already though, I thought, so it’s strange that it wasn’t showing up with other search terms.
From what I've been seeing, there seem to be some delays in the search surfacing results for communities from other instances. I was searching for a community over in lemmy.sdf.org from this instance (lemmy.world) and despite folks from there posting in world (which should federate them, I think?), it still took a few tries & waiting a moment for a community from sdf to show up in search results.
If you search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]), you should find it. It shows up for me!
Are we able to post to other instances? Just tried commenting on a topic on another instance and it didn't go through 🤔