How do you access a community from another instance that isn't already "indexed"?
How do you access a community from another instance that isn't already "indexed"?
From what I understand, in order for you to be able to see a community from another instance, it has to have been looked at by someone else from your instance, or something like that? But I'm not sure how it works.
For example, I've been trying to get to lemmy.world/c/geometrydash from here, but it doesn't show up in search (I'm using jerboa), and going to the url beehaw.org/c/geometrydash@lemmy.world doesn't seem to work. So, how does it work?
At this point it seems that being in a more popular instance is generally better because most of those connections will already be there.
Edit: well it worked magically now (with that you said below) soo 🤷
Search for !geometrydash@lemmy.world in Beehaw's search and it should come up. This initial search causes our instance to "federate" with that one.
However, if the instance you're searching for has been explicitly defederated with by Beehaw, you won't be able to see it here at all. We're federated with that instance already though, I thought, so it's strange that it wasn't showing up with other search terms.
Does that federation include all communities from that instance? If so, I should've had no problem, since lemmy.world is the 2nd biggest instance and was most likely already federated. I do seem to be able to see other communities from there I think, but idk. Searching for that only turns up the comments on this post lmao
I searched for it before posting the original comment and it appeared.
If you search for
!geometrydash@lemmy.world, you should find it. It shows up for me!Are we able to post to other instances? Just tried commenting on a topic on another instance and it didn't go through 🤔