Unable to link new communties via search

Edit/Update: Searching by !community@instance 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@forum.rhombik.com

!makerstuff@lemmy.world

!3dprinting@kbin.social

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@forum.rhombik.com 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/...

Hanabie 5 points 3 years ago

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

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SickIcarus 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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Hanabie 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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SickIcarus 2 points 3 years ago

I expect the same. 🤞

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HybridHuman 4 points 3 years ago

I'm having the same problem.

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SickIcarus 3 points 3 years ago

Good to know it’s not just me, thanks

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Usually_Lurker 2 points 3 years ago

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

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VinS 2 points 3 years ago

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

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SickIcarus 4 points 3 years ago

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

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VinS 2 points 3 years ago

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

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SickIcarus 1 point 3 years ago

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@instance fails, searching by the full url works, which is not what default sidebar directions say to do lol.

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darkwing_duck 1 point 3 years ago

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

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VinS 1 point 3 years ago

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

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ninjakitty7 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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