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c/juggling@lemmy.world <mailto:c/juggling@lemmy.world> is not showing up in search with non-lemmy.world accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by tjthejuggler@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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It works fine if I am using a lemmy.world based account, but for other instances it isn't working. It is not just for me either, other users are reporting the same thing. What can I do to fix this?

https://lemmy.world/c/juggling

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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New communities don't automatically federate. Someone who is logged into the instance has to interact with them to cause their instance to discover the new community.

Someone needs to search for the community in a specific way for the community itself to be discovered.
Someone needs to subscribe for posts/comments to get federated.

See https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827 for more details.

But your community will show up on lemmyverse.net, and will show up for people on your instance. Beyond that you have to advertise it in new-community communities and in juggling adjacent communities where interested folks might hang out.

[–] tjthejuggler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I see, thank you for taking the time to make this explanation, I really appreciate it!

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Just access the community while logged in to another instance; then it will be visible to search.

For example, it's over there: https://programming.dev/c/juggling@lemmy.world

And it's visible in their search: https://programming.dev/search?q=juggling&type=Communities

[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

See the other message I have written - you should always recommend search. The URL only works if someone has already searched for that community. If you're on a big instance, that's almost always true, but on a smaller instance it often isn't.

[–] Haggunenons@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Same issue with

!digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world

Thanks for the info, fixed now

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !juggling@lemmy.world

[–] tjthejuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excellent! Thanks so much, this is precisely what I needed to learn!

[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The above advice isn't perfect - in general, use Search first.

Until the first person searches for a community on your instance, your instance doesn't know about it and the URL won't work. Searching (usually using the !community@instance.com form) should always work.

Equally, your instance doesn't start pulling data on a community (messages etc.) until someone subscribes to it, and then when subscribed it will sometimes take a a few hours to get it all (it should immediately start getting new posts and comments).

[–] tjthejuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Excellent! Thanks so much for the info, this clears things up. I appreciate it.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's working for me

[–] tjthejuggler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thankyou

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !juggling@lemmy.world

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shows up for me when I search for "!juggling@lemmy.world"

[–] tjthejuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm surprised you found such an old unpopular post.