Further weirdness: It still doesn't resolve by URL for me on lemmy.one, but now that @moonleay@feddit.de was able to find it, I can get results back with the string "no man" -- but both are listed as having zero subscribers??
Why can't I find federated communities on lemmy.one?
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/nomanss
The search didn't work for me, coming from lemmy.one. Didn't even show a "no results" message. Copypastaing the whole URL worked, but that is a deeply wonky interface :(
Thank you though! Subscribed.
How do I subscribe to that sopuli one, since it doesn't show up in my local search results?