cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2669274

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2669228

I’m fairly new to fediverse/instances, but my understanding that these Instances are federated with each other, so they can show the same posts/communities (depending on their respective filters).

So, why does searching for communities show different results, and even show different subscriber counts for one that do appear across all results?

Is this a case of the servers just needing to sync with each other?

  • andyquest@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    No, the original answer is incomplete. Search results are only the communities a given instance has loaded/ cached in the past.

    To load a new community you must directly open it by typing this into your Url bar yourinstance.com/c/newcommunity@theotherinstance

    It will load the community and then it will show in search results, unless it’s defederated