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'All' to me means """all""" the servers my instance can connect to that contain that string.
It's a very simple concept.
Resource wise, it makes sense to only retrieve content the users of the instance are interested in. Think about all the nsfw communities popping on lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, as well as all the content in languages your users don't speak.
Some instances are multilingual, so you don't want to defederate from them (and defederation shouldn't really be used in this context anyway), but retrieving 50% of content none of your users is ever going to read seems like a waste.
Yeah. And I'm interested in retrieving all of the servers my instance is connected to that contain a string in that community name.
Why is this so hard to get across to you?
Why don't you have a solution for how server members find communities on different servers in the first place? Are you really defending relying on third-party services and 'other means' to find communities on different servers?
I think that's really bad design and a testament to why the fediverse is inaccessible to the general public.
It's just not very simple, quite the contrary, you would need to have a server park like reddit has it to store everuthing on every instance, the databases would be so big that you would need specialosts running just the database servers.
Oh yes, it really is.
The implementation may not be easy, but the concept is very simple.