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Noob question about federation and communities (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by TotallyNotChoco617@lemmy.ml to c/meta@lemmy.ml

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On my main (@Choco617@lemmy.world), I moderate !technicaldeathmetal@lemmy.world. I thought I’d kinda federate my existence on the platform by creating this alt on lemmy.ml, but when I search communities, while I can find some other lemmy.world ones (validating that .ml/.world federation is working as I understand it), technicaldeathmetal isn’t found. Am I doing something dumb as a user? As a mod? Have I misunderstood the intent of this instance, and I’d be better off trying the same thing from elsewhere? TIA

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[–] phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

are you searching "!technicaldeathmetal@lemmy.world" (no quotes)? make sure you wait a bit on the search results; it takes longer to pull in new communities

[–] TotallyNotChoco617@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for helping!

I tried exactly that search
Other lemmy.world communities (e.g. !metal@lemmy.world, !metalmemes@lemmy.world) don’t seem to need any special searching syntax
I created the community 2 weeks ago

Any ideas?

Edit: you can see in the auto-links in our comments, my community returns “couldnt_find_community”, my counterexamples both work fine.

[–] phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just to make sure, you're doing it while logged in, right?

if so then thats about it for my ideas...

[–] TotallyNotChoco617@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep - tried in Memmy for iOS and also Firefox (mobile). Glad it’s not something obvious at least! Guess I’ll try again in a while, see if maybe my account’s age is the issue. Thanks again!

[–] phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

actually, it looks like theres some issue keeping lemmy.world federating properly with lemmy.ml atm. I saw another post mentioning it and checked myself.

https://lemmy.ml/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world shows the most recent post as 2 days ago when there was really a post around 4 hours ago.

that'd certainly keep new lemmy.world communities from getting pulled in.

neither server has defederated with the other, so don't expect it to be a permanent issue

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] TotallyNotChoco617@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

PERFECT. This is exactly the sort of sync issue I was hoping it was, sure makes my end easy if I can simply wait for it to be sorted out.