Hello, When I go to communities and list all, I can only see two pages of communities. If I search for a community I know about there’s a good chance it does not show until I go to https://lemmy.nz/c/group@instance

Once I do that I can subscribe to the community and it’s behaving normally.

Is this an effect of it being federated?

Thanks

  • SpiderPig2000@lemmy.nz
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yeah mate. Your take on it sounds about right with a dash of lesser used communities are less prioritised… IDK, just making things up at this point.

    LOL, This is starting to feel a bit like the the days of direct dial-up BBSs, where I’m in a chat with the sysop. Love it :D

    • Dave@lemmy.nzM
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think smaller communities are less prioritised, but on larger communities it’s much more likely someone else has searched it up first so it’s already federated with the server.

      If you want more tech stuff, go join the Instance Admin chat on Matrix. All the highs and lows and everything in between. It’s a public room so anyone can join: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org

      • SpiderPig2000@lemmy.nz
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think smaller communities are less prioritised, but on larger communities it’s much more likely some I else has searched it up first so it’s already federated with the server.

        Fair enough, It’s just a half baked supposition I came to after some larger non-federatred communities showed up almost instantly and a few others took more of time.