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I think it's a bit harder when you're on a smaller server. If someone from your server hasn't subscribed yet I don't think it shows up like that. In this case, I've followed the info in the top right of the webui, and entered [email protected] into the search, which pulls it correctly.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that search only exposes the communities that at least one of the servers members is currently subscribed to. It is not a list of all possible communities. This works okay if your server has a lot of members because it will likely surface the main popular communities, but it's misleading that it's all communities and someone had to do it the hard way like OP said the first time around.
I suppose you could, but it's done this way on purpose to reduce load on the server. As soon as a user from that instance starts flowing the community from another instance, that server has to keep track of all updates in that community to be able to deliver it to you.
Essentially, if none of the instances users are following that community, why bother with keeping track of it. If you wrote a bot to subscribe to everything your server load would skyrocket and so would the costs.
I think it's much more likely that a better community browser will be incorporated so that people don't have to rely on third party sites.
Thank you! The search icon was so small on lemm.ee that I didn't notice. It actually works much better! You're a saviour!
How do I properly close this thread? Do I have to? Can I mark it as solved somehow?
Please leave it up. I needed to know this and others will too.