Why cant I see all communities on my instance?
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Hey there! I'm quite new to the fediverse and got a question. On the instance I am, I can e.g. search for the community `!gonewild@fedinsfw.app`, which is being found and I can join it bla bla bla (or, as you see, post in this community here). But when searching for example for `!Anal@fedinsfw.app`, my instance says that it cant find anything. Is this intended behaviour and how do I know why it cant find it?

Hey there!

Already posted this on the instance itself, but there seems no explanation on why I can see one community, but not the other - no matter what I’m looking for.

Might this be a Lemmy←→PieFed problem?

Flagged as NSFW, because the link will then refer to NSFW communities.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
      8·
      3 months ago

      To the OP: basically ActivityPub quirk, no instances proactively import remote contents, first having to have someone request that information, and how the “request” happens, depends on the software

      • Trollwut@feddit.orgOP
        1·
        3 months ago

        Ah ok, I might understand, thanks for explaining!

        So how am I supposed to add this? I’m still new to the Threadiverse.

        • Auster@thebrainbin.org
          1·
          3 months ago

          Been a while since I used Piefed, but at least ~1 year ago, iirc first you import the community as hendrik said, then you go to the other search page and search for the post using its original url, which always is from the OP’s instance, not the community’s.

          However, 1 year in software development is a lot, so there’s a chance Piefed’s far less analogical now, and thus the paragraph above may be outdated.

            • Auster@thebrainbin.org
              4·
              3 months ago

              Ah, forgive me. Thought you were on Piefed. 😣

              ahem From your Lemmy instance, go to feddit.org/search, put the post’s link in the search bar, hit enter and wait a little. That way, the post and the skeleton of the community get imported, and following the community lets new posts get imported.

              Alternatively, if you want to find just the community, not any specific posts, community mentions help too, e.g. here would be !piefed_help@piefed.social (!piefed_help@piefed.social), which you click to get redirected to the given community. Mentions you can find “in the wild”, through discovery communities, sending DMs of the mentions to others or to alt accounts, or sending the mentions to communities specifically for testing.

              • Trollwut@feddit.orgOP
                1·
                3 months ago

                Did it on the search on the “normal” interface, as well on Tesseract for ~5 minutes. Unfortunately, search stays with no results…

                EDIT: oh and dont excuse yourself, I’m very grateful for your help

                • Auster@thebrainbin.org
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Unsure what exactly you mean by “normal interface”, but when I am on Lemmy, I do like this (Ani.Social because it’s the Lemmy instance I use):

                  • Trollwut@feddit.orgOP
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    Yes yes, but it doesnt show anything for the mentioned community:

                    Same thing when I enter the banged version. From that instance tho, I can find other communities.

                  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    Also these in the the attached image are the places where you get the posts’ original urls, the ones that are the most likely to work in a fediverse search. And they change depending on the user’s instance, e.g. your post and comment link to feddit.org, mine links to thebrainbin.org.