Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
This federation concept does not work as expected for me. If I understand correctly, I can access a community from mastodon, kbin and others. But In practice I get a lot of 404 errors.
For example, I want to access https://kbin.social/m/tech from lemmy. So I could access it by going to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected], right? But I just get a “404: couldnt_find_community” error message.
Also the search functionality seems really broken when you want to search a community from another instance, sometimes it’s in the results and sometimes it’s not. Is there a cache of some kind or a really long delay when a community is new?
I’m not 100% sure but I think as of now kbin users can view lemmy instances, but lemmy users can’t see kbin posts.
Unfortunate but hopefully they implement the feature soon.
As for search, yeah if a community is being fetched for the first time in any instance, it takes a few seconds to fetch all the info. Subsequent times search will show it instant as its already stored in local dB.
I’m surprised that no one made a bot that auto federate the instances, that would fix the search being wonky. But I guess we are in the early days.