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.
I had to search
!iasip@lemmy.mlin All communities and refresh/start a new search page before iasip loaded. I think simply searching iasip now though will work for you now that it’s “cached” on the midwest instance (someone more knowledgeable about this federation model please correct me if I’m wrong).Yes. Always search twice if it doesn’t show the first time. If it is “new” to the instance it maps it and then on the second search it will show.
Does this apply to Kbin magazines as well? I’ve been trying to sub to !squaredcircle@kbin.social without much luck; I’ve searched it a few times, and while there’s a few other Kbin magazines that come up on a search in the communities list, that one remains elusive.
Thanks I think I just needed to search on the desktop web version instead of mobile and wait a little bit longer for the results to load. In now!
Yes. Always search twice if it doesn’t show the first time. If it is “new” to the instance it maps it and then on the second search it will show.
Yes. Always search twice if it doesn’t show the first time. If it is “new” to the instance it maps it and then on the second search it will show.
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.
I tried searching in https://midwest.social/communities for both !usmlr@lemmy.ml and just “usmlr” at least a dozen times, as well as going to https://midwest.social/c/usmlr@lemmy.ml, but so far nothing is working.
