Unable to link new communties via search

Edit/Update: Searching by !community fails, searching by the full url works.

Original post: So if my understanding is correct, a Lemmy instance won’t be aware of a community on another instance until the first time it is searched from your home instance.

If that understanding is correct, then the process does not seem to be working from sh.itjust.works.

Examples:

!3d_printing

!makerstuff

!3dprinting

To try and get these communities visible from sh.itjust.works, I’m entering the search term as shown above into the Communties search field and smashing Search a few times. Normally there would be no results, but if you then search for just the community name it shows up as being connected - that’s no longer happening.

If I am misunderstanding or doing something wrong please let me know.

Edit: Searching for the entire url seems to work sometimes

Example: https://forum.rhombik.com/c/3d_printing - no joy

https://lemmy.world/c/makerstuff - worked!

https://kbin.social/m/3DPrinting - worked!

Edit: it appears the problem with !3d_printing is on their side - found a post where they were misconfigured and only federating with two other instances, and have ddos shields up.

https://forum.rhombik.com/post/109?scrollToComments=true

Usually_Lurker,
Usually_Lurker avatar

+1 same problem. Not sure if its sorted out yet. Still unable to join/connect.

VinS,

I've put them all in my subscribed feed. I can see them from there.

SickIcarus,

How? I was able to get subscribed to !makerstuff and !3DPrinting once they showed up in the community search (after searching by the url), but I still can’t see !3d_printing in order to subscribe to it.

VinS,

Sorry not rhombik.

https://forum.rhombik.com/instances seems to be linked only on some instances : (as the time of writting) lemmy.ml mydomain.ml lemmy.world

From what I understand, it may be because they work with whitelisting, or because it's too young and not federated/cached yet.

Compare this with : https://sh.itjust.works/instances

darkwing_duck,

So Rhombik sees sh.itjust.works, but sh.itjust.works doesn't see forum.rhombik.com? Why?

VinS,

Last time I checked they both didn't see each other

darkwing_duck,

Rhombik sees us: https://forum.rhombik.com/instances

VinS,

That's better than earlier. There was only 3 instances seen (named earlier in-line). Can we see their posts / subscribe on their channels now?

darkwing_duck,

Nope.

SickIcarus,

Yeah I just saw a post over there, the admin fucked up his configs. Hopefully he gets it sorted soon if he’s moving the “official” /r/3dprinting sub to his own instance. 🤷‍♂️

I updated my main post, looks like searching by !community fails, searching by the full url works, which is not what default sidebar directions say to do lol.

ninjakitty7,

The list includes kbin.social now, but I still can’t get it to show on kbin no matter how I format my searches or urls.

Hanabie,
@Hanabie@sh.itjust.works avatar

I really hope they get this sorted. Fragmented communities would be fine, if one could find all of them in one go.

SickIcarus,

Same. Lots of growing pains! That’s ok though, it’ll all get sorted. And a silver lining might be that these growing pains help filter out the low-effort riff-raff maybe.

Hanabie,
@Hanabie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah, I'm sure they'll smoothen it all out in time. I expect another wave of users come July, and then one more once old.reddit and RES are dead.

SickIcarus,

I expect the same. 🤞

HybridHuman,

I'm having the same problem.

SickIcarus,

Good to know it’s not just me, thanks

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