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Search isn't global? (lemmy.today)
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I've been trying to get the app setup today, and I'm struggling to find communities through search. It seems like the search is only checking communities on my instance, not everywhere? Not sure if I'm missing something but I can't find a way to search the broader fediverse.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I use this to search: https://lemmyverse.net/

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think search is limited to communities that any user of your instance has subscribed to.

You want this. https://browse.feddit.de/

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh weird. Is that a framework limitation of Lemmy? Seems undesirable. Thanks for the response.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is a Lemmy is ran by thousands of individuals who do not want to pay out of pocket to allow every server in the fediverse to waste their resources running search queries all day limitation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely a bad user experience for an everyday pleb like myself. Seems like a solution will be needed for that eventually if we want wider adoption. That's far beyond the scope of Boost, though, so I'll leave it there. Thanks for the explanation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I search for e.g. "iama", I get several communities from several instances. Seems to work for me. Maybe your instance isn't federating correctly? Or maybe you're looking for niche communities that simply don't exist anywhere? Do other clients/apps work?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What you see when you search, and what everyone around you sees, is different and depends on what instances your instance talks to.