Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.

Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.

  • This federation concept does not work as expected for me. If I understand correctly, I can access a community from mastodon, kbin and others. But In practice I get a lot of 404 errors.

    For example, I want to access https://kbin.social/m/tech from lemmy. So I could access it by going to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/tech@kbin.social, right? But I just get a “404: couldnt_find_community” error message.

    Also the search functionality seems really broken when you want to search a community from another instance, sometimes it’s in the results and sometimes it’s not. Is there a cache of some kind or a really long delay when a community is new?

    • I’m not 100% sure but I think as of now kbin users can view lemmy instances, but lemmy users can’t see kbin posts.

      Unfortunate but hopefully they implement the feature soon.

      As for search, yeah if a community is being fetched for the first time in any instance, it takes a few seconds to fetch all the info. Subsequent times search will show it instant as its already stored in local dB.