Am I doing something wrong? It seems to me that we ought to be able to find communities from other instances by searching for them, but I don’t really see much when I search. Sometimes some communities show up, but it seems to be only communities I’ve visited before or something?
My understanding is that searching creates a connection to the other instances, and community content should start appearing after you search, but only new posts / comments. There isn’t a historical sync across instances from what I understand.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities is a handy site for finding communities. You need to search for their full url the first time.