Yes.
I even saw scripts which mass subscribe to popular communities to populate new instances.
leo
joined 2 years ago
Something insightful.
Your local instance search will return communities from other instances if somebody on your instance already subscribes to them.
As others already pointed out, search for the whole URL otherwise.
It's how Lemmy works: Your instance can only search what it knows.
It didn’t use to be like that.
Maybe I misunderstand something here, but this was always the case.
Don't hate me bro :)
Cyperchef might not exactly what you are looking for, but it is selfhosted and has some conversion functions.
Posted with LiftOff. Seems to work.
Knowledge and understanding. Feels good, man.
Obligatory Xkcd.