searching for communities.

3 years ago by Lophostemon to c/thunder_app

Apologies for yet more dumb questions. Not sure if it’s a Thunder thing or a Lemmy thing.

When I go to search for new communities, I only get the option now to search within the instance I signed up on (Aussie.zone) instead of everywhere. Have I accidentally changed a setting somewhere?

darklightxi 3 points 3 years ago

In addition to the full URL, you can search for a specific community using the community formatted version! (e.g., !announcements@lemmy.ml)

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shortwavesurfer 3 points 3 years ago

Give the full URL to the community such as https://instance.tld/c/communityname

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Lophostemon 1 point 3 years ago

Mmmm ok but what if I don’t know what communities exist? Seems like a few weeks ago I went searching with just ‘A’ and saw what communities turned up starting with ‘a’. Etc.

Now that is only possible in ‘my’ instance.

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shortwavesurfer 2 points 3 years ago

Ah. I see. I personally use https://browse.feddit.de/ for this.

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Lophostemon 1 point 3 years ago

How does one copy the link using that method?

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shortwavesurfer 1 point 3 years ago

tap the copy button

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leo 1 point 3 years ago

Searching is local instance only by design. Use this to search over multiple instances.

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Lophostemon 1 point 3 years ago

Thank you. Do you mean by design of Thunder or the instance I’m on?

Either way… why?!?! And why the change? It didn’t use to be like that.

If it’s Thunder, then I’m bailing and getting a new app.

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leo 1 point 3 years ago

It's how Lemmy works: Your instance can only search what it knows.

It didn’t use to be like that.

Maybe I misunderstand something here, but this was always the case.

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Lophostemon 1 point 3 years ago

Well I’m confused because a few weeks ago I’m sure I used Thunder to browse for communities outside ‘mine’.

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darklightxi 2 points 3 years ago

To clarify this, there is an option within the search page that allows you to filter search results for local/all instances. By default, it should be all instances. However, to have a community that is not part of your instance show up, at least one person from your instance has to subscribe to them to federate (by searching the full URL as others have mentioned). I've attached some screenshots to help explain what I mean. I hope this helps!

If this is not the case you're seeing, then feel free to create an issue on GitHub and we can take a closer look at the issue!

You can see this on this picture (search results show communities from different instances):

To switch the search filter to local/all, tap on the corresponding filter button and select the filter you want:

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leo 1 point 3 years ago

Your local instance search will return communities from other instances if somebody on your instance already subscribes to them.

As others already pointed out, search for the whole URL otherwise.

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