My friend is having issues viewing/subscribing to this community from another instance. Is it set up that way on purpose or is the community too small to be indexed?

I tried viewing here from a couple of other of instances and I just get:

404: couldnt_find_community

Wondering if this is a known issue or localised to us two. I also couldn’t find any other vegan communities, so am unsure where to go from here.

  • AdaAEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Basically, lemmy isn’t yet configured to handle discovering of new communities very well. So if you try and search for it directly via a URL, you get the 404 error if no one has yet subscribed to it.

    What you can do is search for it on the other instance, using !vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone. It may not return any results, but if you give it a few minutes and do it a couple of times, once it has federated, you’ll see it in the results. And once it appears in the results for that instance, it will appear in the search results for all users on that instance.

    That’s how all new group discovery currently works in lemmy. I assume it will be made more user friendly in future updates :)