On my main (@Choco617@lemmy.world), I moderate !technicaldeathmetal@lemmy.world. I thought I’d kinda federate my existence on the platform by creating this alt on lemmy.ml, but when I search communities, while I can find some other lemmy.world ones (validating that .ml/.world federation is working as I understand it), technicaldeathmetal isn’t found. Am I doing something dumb as a user? As a mod? Have I misunderstood the intent of this instance, and I’d be better off trying the same thing from elsewhere? TIA

    • TotallyNotChoco617OP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for helping!

      Any ideas?

      Edit: you can see in the auto-links in our comments, my community returns “couldnt_find_community”, my counterexamples both work fine.

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          1 year ago

          Yep - tried in Memmy for iOS and also Firefox (mobile). Glad it’s not something obvious at least! Guess I’ll try again in a while, see if maybe my account’s age is the issue. Thanks again!

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            1 year ago

            actually, it looks like theres some issue keeping lemmy.world federating properly with lemmy.ml atm. I saw another post mentioning it and checked myself.

            https://lemmy.ml/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world shows the most recent post as 2 days ago when there was really a post around 4 hours ago.

            that’d certainly keep new lemmy.world communities from getting pulled in.

            neither server has defederated with the other, so don’t expect it to be a permanent issue