@lemmy I finally got Lemmy working in a docker container and I am setup but searching for communities is failing. What could I be doing wrong?
Same for me. And when I try to manually go to a community on another instance I get this message:
Error! There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn’t work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.
The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error
I haven’t set up a Lemmy instance, but I have set up my own Mastodon, so take all this with a maybe irrelevant grain of salt.
Assuming your docker setup is fine, It could simply be the fact that your instance won’t be aware of another federated instance until a connection is manually made, like a user subscribing to a community on that external instance. To help that along, you could search for another instances’ community explicitly by URL, like
https://lemmy.ml/c/metafor example, and see it that gets you a result on your instance.
