One of the things that has been frustrating me most deeply when trying to move to Lemmy, especially as the exodus from Reddit really picks up steam, is finding new communities as they set up shop. Most of them appear to be landing on lemmy.ml, which has adopted more of an open-door policy for community creation. That’s fine, I’m not asking lemmy.one to necessarily do the same. I picked this instance to take some pressure off the really big ones.

But the process is maddening.

  • I search for (e.g.) the string “no man” in my lemmy.one Communities page under “All”. No results.
  • Someone mentions a cross-federation search at lemme.de. Why isn’t this everywhere?
  • I search there for “no man” and two communities pop, one at lemme.ml and one at lemmy.world. There are no subscribe links.
  • The lemmy.ml one looks popular, so I copy the full URL and put it in my lemmy.one search. No results, and no “no results” message.
  • OK, so I visit https://lemmy.ml/c/nomanssky directly and click “Sidebar”. Nothing happens. There appears to be a Javascript error preventing anything from working (including the hamburger menu). Is this because I’m a lemmy.one user?
  • Start from lemmy.ml, and search their Communities for “no man”, find the community, click through, click Sidebar. I get a magic string, !nomanssky@lemmy.ml.
  • Back on lemmy.one, search for !nomanssky@lemmy.ml. NO RESULTS.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! What is going on here?? Is lemmy.one blocking these instances? Can’t be, I see lemmy.ml stuff all over. Starting to wonder if I just made the wrong choice and should go join the cool kids on a “big” instance.

  • BricriuOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Right, I did that – steps 5, 6, and 7.

    • CmdrShepardEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      In the lemmy.one search, try putting your search in the format of !videos@lemmy.ml and you should be able to find them. Essentiallyust separate the community name and the domain with the @ and have the ! at the beginning. This should work but you may need to give the search 10-15 seconds of additional time to find the community. I noticed that it would give me “No Results” but then the community would pop up a few seconds later. After this click on the community > sidebar > subscribe

      • BricriuOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        So I also tried that, step 7, and I still don’t get any results, days later.

        • CmdrShepardEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I must have missed that in your OP. It could be server issues due to the increased traffic but other than that I dunno since I’m new here myself.

    • erikEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I need to work on my reading comprehension :)