I'm on latte.isnot.coffee and I just searched both [!jerboa@lemmy.ml](/c/jerboa@lemmy.ml) and https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa and didn't get results for either. Neither has a message saying that there are no search results, but neither shows any results either.
One important aspect of D&D "rules" is that theoretically there's no specific limit on what your character can attempt. If you say your character attempts something the DM thinks clearly impossible or trivially easy, they may not even have you roll for it. "You plant your hands firmly at the base of the mountan and push and grunt, but you fail to move it noticeably." "You squash the cockroach easily under your boot."
I've noticed the same on the web UI. Searching a non-local community more often doesn't work than does.
Also, it's a double-edged sword. Don't be adding your kid as an authorized user for convenience and then surprised pikachu when their credit report raises flags for big debt with no income (like my parents did.) An authorized user isn't just someone who can use the card. Their credit score is affected by any card they're authorized on.
If you login in a browser, it'll most likely give you a "session cookie" that you should be able to see in the developer tools. (If you're using Firefox's developer tools, it'd be under the "storage" section.) The name of the cookie will generally have the word "session" in the name. After logging in, that cookie identifies you to the server, letting the server know that "this particular request is from CucumberSalad" (or whatever your user is named on that service.) Wget probably hasn't been working because the requests from wget don't include that cookie like the requests from your browser do.
(Just looking at my developer tools while using Lemmy, it seems like the Lemmy web ui doesn't use session cookies but rather a JSON web token in a cookie named "jwt", but I think that cookie would suffice if I was trying to scrape the Lemmy web ui.)
Once you have the proper cookie name and value, you can have wget send the cookie to the server with each request by adding the flag --header 'Cookie: <cookie name>=<cookie value>' (but replace the values in angle brackets. Example: --header 'Cookie: JSESSIONID=ksdjflasjdfaskdjfaosidhwe'.)
Also, if you can provide more info as to what you're trying to scrape, folks can probably help more. Hopefully what I've given you is enough to get you going, but it's possible there might be more hurtles to jump to get it working.
Not sure I have much of a solution, but if it makes you feel better you're not alone. I do the same thing. Right now I'm back on an "improving my privacy" kick, but I to tend to get burned out and get more lax.
I expected to feel a lot of grief, but Lemmy has matured extremely quickly even since I joined like 4 days ago or so and at this point I'm just excited.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
That makes it sound like I live a much more minimalistic life than I do. But when I write code (and writing code is a big part of my life), I apply the fuck out of that quote.
I keep catching myself starting (but so far never finishing) to type "reddit.com" into my address bar. Lol.
But more to your point, I've done a little more lately on side coding and learning projects while returning to some old favorite sites like Hacker News, Slashdot, and Hackaday. And I've found some new ones like Raddle and, well, Lemmy.
I was a reeeaaally late adopter of a smartphone and I've never ran anything but (Google-less) LineageOS on a Pixel 3a, so I don't have much frame of reference, but I'm very happy with that arrangent.
I've seen both of those behaviors as well, but more often than those, it just never displays results.