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:
!3d_printing@forum.rhombik.com
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 !3d_printing@forum.rhombik.com is on their side - found a post where they were misconfigured and only federating with two other instances, and have ddos shields up.
I really hope they get this sorted. Fragmented communities would be fine, if one could find all of them in one go.
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.
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.
I expect the same. 🤞