Find the community I want on another instance - the URL works for me. E.g. “http://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy”

Aha! Another search method. Thanks, didn’t know you could also use a direct URL search.

Once again, Thanks @Dave for starting this instance. Thanks also to fediservices.nz, for providing hosting for it.

Regarding the FAQ about “I want a community about X, how do I create it?”

In my limited experiences so far, if you have found a community that you want to participate in on another Lemmy instance that does not appear in the Communities page of Lemmy.nz and is not appearing within 10-20 secs when you try to search for it. Try the following:

Search for !<community name>@<Lemmy instance>. If this does not return any results search for the <community name> only after a few seconds delay.

-Rinse -Lather -Repeat

It seems that sometimes the Fediverse takes it’s time to federate… All good, keep on trying :)

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.

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

Just to add some anecdotal information to the discussion already in this post.

I’ve been trying to sub to !futurology@lemmy.ml since I created my account early yesterday and it’s just shown up a few minutes ago in a search.

Anyway, thank you @Dave@lemmy.nz for starting this instance up.

Edit: added link to !futurology@lemmy.ml