I tried every ways to find communities from other instances. Searching for the url, searching for !communityname@instance.com, with the filter “all”, and I always get no results.
Those are communities that I find in other instances and would like to join. Nothing works.
How do you do it??
Oh, I guess I didn’t read your OP closely enough. You did seem to hit the key points. I’m not sure what’s wrong and don’t have further suggestions. I have to think it’s something simple you’re missing, otherwise we’d be hearing a flood of similar reports… but what you’ve described should work. Sorry you’re having trouble.
I posted another comment with examples of things I tried with no result