Does the Midwest server not store essentially dead communities from other servers? For example I can find and join technology@beehaw but not iasip@lemmy.ml. I am guessing because the IASIP community doesn’t meet some content or engagement threshold. But, I want to post there so it will meet the threshold! It seems like this could create duplicate communities across servers if small communities can’t be easily revived.
if you search a community, to try to list it, then it loads all references to that community, and drops the community link itself to the last page.
one can do midwest.social/c/communityname@other.site and load the community through here … so… it’s like… almost there, just not quite designed properly to connect… (since ! links take you to the other site, there doesn’t seem to be a way to link to that community on this server which seems to be what i would more often want to do)
copy/pasting someone else’s comment: For now, as a workaround, you can manually make it a hyperlink: /c/technology@beehaw.org
Just use
[/c/technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org). This should open correctly on all instances.