Personally i’m looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.

  • Actually did that and got zero results in lemmy.ml. Which was baffling to me.

    The other way that works is clicking your name and then clicking the community in your “Moderates” box. Which proved to me that this instance can see your instance. If seeing your username wasn’t enough for that.

    • Hmm that is odd. I wonder is that is some slowness in lemmy.ml since they are overloaded causing the federation to slow down. The server can be set to have a limit of federation workers, so if all of those are busy getting updates from servers it might not show up.

      That’s a guess though since I haven’t dug into the codebase and there aren’t really any architecture diagrams of how Lemmy is constructed.

          • Is it a bug, or defined behavior for a reason I just don’t quite grok yet?

            I’m a typescript vet, and if I really stick to lemmy I can see myself trying to help out a bit… but I also get about 4 hours of sleep a night, so it won’t be soon ;)

            • I think it’s defined behavior because the idea (sort of from mastodon I guess???) is that there’s the local instance and it’s communities, and then the federated world. Presumably some people want to ?maybe? stay close to home? It’s def a techie way of thinking, like having your own internal wiki, and then knowing about wikipedia say.

              It made sense to me because I already worked it out for mastodon, but otherwise I can see how that’s confusing.

              • Hmm… Weird. I kinda figured the “Local/Subscriptions/All” toggle would be what defined if I’m checking Federated, and not the “Community/Comments/Posts/All” toggle. I understand the “URL” option if I want to search for a URL. I guess maybe it treats a federated community as a URL even if it’s typed as a community?

                I’m on Mastadon as well, and for some reason never tripped up on this. But I’m not sure I’ve sought out any remote communities in Mastadon like that.