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:
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 [email protected] is on their side - found a post where they were misconfigured and only federating with two other instances, and have ddos shields up.
How? I was able to get subscribed to [email protected] and [email protected] once they showed up in the community search (after searching by the url), but I still can’t see [email protected] in order to subscribe to it.
Sorry not rhombik.
https://forum.rhombik.com/instances seems to be linked only on some instances : (as the time of writting) lemmy.ml mydomain.ml lemmy.world
From what I understand, it may be because they work with whitelisting, or because it’s too young and not federated/cached yet.
Compare this with : https://sh.itjust.works/instances
So Rhombik sees sh.itjust.works, but sh.itjust.works doesn’t see forum.rhombik.com? Why?
Last time I checked they both didn’t see each other
Rhombik sees us: https://forum.rhombik.com/instances
That’s better than earlier. There was only 3 instances seen (named earlier in-line). Can we see their posts / subscribe on their channels now?
Nope.
The list includes kbin.social now, but I still can’t get it to show on kbin no matter how I format my searches or urls.
Yeah I just saw a post over there, the admin fucked up his configs. Hopefully he gets it sorted soon if he’s moving the “official” /r/3dprinting sub to his own instance. 🤷♂️
I updated my main post, looks like searching by !community@instance fails, searching by the full url works, which is not what default sidebar directions say to do lol.