AFAIK your instance wont index a community from another federated instance until a member of your instance actually connects to the other instance via subscribing to a community (aka pasting the link in your search bar and subscribing). It’s not ideal, and I could be wrong. I am new to this as well.
You can use this link to see what instances federate with others and who is blocking who.
lemmymap.feddit.de
it’s a visual map but I havent found anything else yet that shows it in another way. I think these are all growing pains that lemmy is going through. As more people join, hopefully other tools, extensions, etc are developed to help with these issues
Interesting, so where should I be searching? I tried going Communities -> All -> Search bar and typing (as an example !deutschland@feddit.de) but it says “No Results”
But then when I go back onto the “Communities -> All” page it’s there!
I think it takes a few minutes after you search for it to show up. I’ve had the same issue, and I usually can brute force it. If that doesn’t work, then you can check the map link and see if they are federated or blocked. Since you are running your own instance you shouldn’t have issues with blocking or being blocked for now. For example I was trying to make my community discoverable from Midwest.social, but when I looked at the map lemmy.ml (my main instance) and Midwest.social, while not blocking each other, do not appear to be federated. At least not yet.
I am running !ps5@lemmy.ml and as I see useful links like this I am putting them in my sidebar, even though they arent PS5 related. I think a lot of people are trying to figure this all out.
Does anyone know how I can load up a list of off-server communities without searching for each one?
browse.feddit.de
How can I add these to my own instance? Right now if I go here (https://latte.isnot.coffee/communities/listing_type/All/page/1) I only see Lemmy Support (which I searched for) and my own community
AFAIK your instance wont index a community from another federated instance until a member of your instance actually connects to the other instance via subscribing to a community (aka pasting the link in your search bar and subscribing). It’s not ideal, and I could be wrong. I am new to this as well.
You can use this link to see what instances federate with others and who is blocking who. lemmymap.feddit.de
it’s a visual map but I havent found anything else yet that shows it in another way. I think these are all growing pains that lemmy is going through. As more people join, hopefully other tools, extensions, etc are developed to help with these issues
Interesting, so where should I be searching? I tried going Communities -> All -> Search bar and typing (as an example !deutschland@feddit.de) but it says “No Results”
But then when I go back onto the “Communities -> All” page it’s there!
I think it takes a few minutes after you search for it to show up. I’ve had the same issue, and I usually can brute force it. If that doesn’t work, then you can check the map link and see if they are federated or blocked. Since you are running your own instance you shouldn’t have issues with blocking or being blocked for now. For example I was trying to make my community discoverable from Midwest.social, but when I looked at the map lemmy.ml (my main instance) and Midwest.social, while not blocking each other, do not appear to be federated. At least not yet.
I see, how do I see the map?
For me, sometimes you need to just wait. It takes some time for the search to fully resolve and give you a community result.
Here is another useful link I found recently that you may want to include with the others in a pinned post or in your support community sidebar.
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I am running !ps5@lemmy.ml and as I see useful links like this I am putting them in my sidebar, even though they arent PS5 related. I think a lot of people are trying to figure this all out.