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How do you access a community from another instance that isn't already "indexed"? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From what I understand, in order for you to be able to see a community from another instance, it has to have been looked at by someone else from your instance, or something like that? But I'm not sure how it works.

For example, I've been trying to get to lemmy.world/c/geometrydash from here, but it doesn't show up in search (I'm using jerboa), and going to the url beehaw.org/c/[email protected] doesn't seem to work. So, how does it work?

At this point it seems that being in a more popular instance is generally better because most of those connections will already be there.

Edit: well it worked magically now (with that you said below) soo 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Search for [email protected] in Beehaw's search and it should come up. This initial search causes our instance to "federate" with that one.

However, if the instance you're searching for has been explicitly defederated with by Beehaw, you won't be able to see it here at all. We're federated with that instance already though, I thought, so it's strange that it wasn't showing up with other search terms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does that federation include all communities from that instance? If so, I should've had no problem, since lemmy.world is the 2nd biggest instance and was most likely already federated. I do seem to be able to see other communities from there I think, but idk. Searching for that only turns up the comments on this post lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The sync between federated instances happens on a per-community basis, so they won’t show up in search until someone has searched for the community once. Depending on instance load, it may take some time for the initial sync of comments to happen after the first subscription.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I searched for it before posting the comment and it appeared.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It works now, thanks! I'm not sure why it didn't before but well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If you search for [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]), you should find it. It shows up for me!

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