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Am I doing something wrong? It seems to me that we ought to be able to find communities from other instances by searching for them, but I don't really see much when I search. Sometimes some communities show up, but it seems to be only communities I've visited before or something?

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[–] andrew@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you could let me know what you’re searching for I can take a closer look, but essentially on the search page the fastest way to locate a community on another server is to type the url of that community (for example, https://mtgzone.com/c/mtg) or it’s Lemmy address (!mtg@mtgzone.com).

I’ll write up a getting started guide as well on this and searching/connecting/interacting with other Lemmy websites.

[–] Brage@mtgzone.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Searching for [!mtg@lemmy.ml](/c/mtg@lemmy.ml) yields no results

[–] saxocat@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago

You can see at the bottom of mtgzone's modlog ( https://mtgzone.com/modlog ) that the admins removed that community. Idk why, possibly to avoid confusion, maybe they see this and can answer.

[–] Brage@mtgzone.com 0 points 1 year ago

If I search for [!linux@beehaw.org](/c/linux@beehaw.org) I find this comment, but not the actual community

[–] utx_shiro@mtgzone.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My understanding is that searching creates a connection to the other instances, and community content should start appearing after you search, but only new posts / comments. There isn't a historical sync across instances from what I understand.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

https://lemmyverse.net/communities is a handy site for finding communities. You need to search for their full url the first time.