Had to split post (because it’s loo long?), see comments.
| url | result | status |
|---|---|---|
| https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] | shows up, up-to-date | 🟢 |
| https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] | shows up but all votes and comments missing | 🟡 |
| https://lemmy.one/c/[email protected] | shows up, some votes missing | 🟡 |
| https://midwest.social/c/[email protected] | couldnt_find_community | 🔴 |
| https://feddit.nl/c/[email protected] | couldnt_find_community | 🔴 |
| https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected] | couldnt_find_community | 🔴 |
| https://sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected] | couldnt_find_community | 🔴 |
| https://mander.xyz/c/[email protected] | shows up, some votes missing | 🟡 |
| https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected] | couldnt_find_community | 🔴 |
| https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] | shows up, some votes missing | 🟡 |
| https://vlemmy.net/c/[email protected] | show up, all posts missing | 🟡 |
| https://feddit.de/c/[email protected] | couldnt_find_community | 🔴 |
| https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] | shows up, some votes missing | 🟡 |
Pretty much, yeah. This is why external discovery tools (like browse.feddit.de and others) are so important and useful. Also posing to any of the new community or community announcement/discovery meta communities. Also sidebars linking to other related communities like on that other site.
I see, so discovery happens out of band, so in order to find it someone has to already have found it. “Search All” is only searching what has already been found on this particular instance, and so the results can vary depending on where you are.
Exactly, your instance stores what you post (local) on it and what gets federated to it (cache, basically). You search those local and cached things. To do it some other way would basically man that either all instances somehow discover each other and send everything to each other all the time or your instance somehow discovers and searches all other instances when you do a search.
There has been talk about something that should make things better as far as “couldnt_find_community” more or less auto-searching a remote community when you go to a
/c/community@example.comsort of link so the experience is less jarring and doesn’t require you to know you have to do a search.