I’ve seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don’t show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in “!communityname@instance.domain”

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

  • rawrspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Any idea if there is a delay in community searching? Someone mentioned a newly created community (1 hour ago) on sh.itjust.works and I searched on lemmy.world for it and nothing but I can visit it directly.

    • bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.comEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Copy the URL and paste it into the search bar of your instance. That will force your instance to “Discover” it. It might say no results but go back to the community page then search the name again