Personally, I use an external site to search all instances. The search on an instance, and the app, only search for communities within that specific/specified instance. I don't wanna have to muck about adding instances to Liftoff that I've no interest in making an account for, and then making the same search several times on different instances to find what I'm after, so I do hope they add a function to search the entire federation as well as the individual sites.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which instance is your account based on? In my experience, using my lemmy.world account at peak server load makes Voyager very slow, Jerboa SUPER slow and Liftoff unable to load anything until I change to my .wtf account..

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My main question is how do you go directly to a community. That's the primary problem, I can find a community, but if I want to go directly to it I can't find a way to do this.

Search isn't helpful because it seems to return results for all instances federated with the one you are searching. So finding something specific is a crap shoot of scrolling forever :/

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you're using Jerboa or Voyager, there should be links to the ones you're subscribed to in the menus where you decide the sorting of your feed, like this: