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Can't see all communities on other servers? (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by llama@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social
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Does the Midwest server not store essentially dead communities from other servers? For example I can find and join technology@beehaw but not iasip@lemmy.ml. I am guessing because the IASIP community doesn't meet some content or engagement threshold. But, I want to post there so it will meet the threshold! It seems like this could create duplicate communities across servers if small communities can't be easily revived.

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[–] bobbo@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I had to search [!iasip@lemmy.ml](/c/iasip@lemmy.ml) in All communities and refresh/start a new search page before iasip loaded. I think simply searching iasip now though will work for you now that it's "cached" on the midwest instance (someone more knowledgeable about this federation model please correct me if I'm wrong).

[–] itchick2014@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

Yes. Always search twice if it doesn’t show the first time. If it is “new” to the instance it maps it and then on the second search it will show.

[–] ImADifferentBird@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Does this apply to Kbin magazines as well? I've been trying to sub to !squaredcircle@kbin.social without much luck; I've searched it a few times, and while there's a few other Kbin magazines that come up on a search in the communities list, that one remains elusive.

[–] llama@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks I think I just needed to search on the desktop web version instead of mobile and wait a little bit longer for the results to load. In now!

[–] itchick2014@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

Yes. Always search twice if it doesn’t show the first time. If it is “new” to the instance it maps it and then on the second search it will show.

[–] itchick2014@midwest.social -1 points 2 years ago

Yes. Always search twice if it doesn’t show the first time. If it is “new” to the instance it maps it and then on the second search it will show.