Why do I get different results when searching for communities on two different instances?

This is what I mean...Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml

Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don't appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message

404: couldnt_find_community

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kiwi 9 points 3 years ago

A lemmy instance will only show communities that someone’s has previously searched using the full url. You can find a list of all available instances here: http://browse.feddit.de/

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path: 0 37346, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 16

cwagner 4 points 3 years ago

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path: 0 37346 37417, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 15

seikoshadow 6 points 3 years ago

How is this expected to become popular if you need to go through all of that? I figured I could just search for a topic then subscribe, but if they're all separate then surely they'll all just become segmented with time and contain duplicate communities in many cases?

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path: 0 37346 37417 37458, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 11

Inori 2 points 3 years ago

That's really bad UX though isn't it ? Probably something that needs to be looked into sooner rather than later.

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path: 0 37346 37417 37562, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1

Wistful 1 point 3 years ago

That was my next question :D, thank you both.

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path: 0 37346 37417 37427, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0