The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?
For some reason, I keep getting 404 errors on these trying to approach them from my instance :/. Hopefully just a temporary bug and not that my instance is defederated from it or something.
It’s probably just that nobody has searched for these communities from your instance yet.
You need to look up, for example, !vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz in the search box on your instance and it should sync up in a few seconds.
!femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz works and is already synced from what I can see :>