I tried every ways to find communities from other instances. Searching for the url, searching for !communityname@instance.com, with the filter “all”, and I always get no results.
Those are communities that I find in other instances and would like to join. Nothing works.
How do you do it??
I have noticed it being particularly buggy on a mobile page browser. I think the mobile browsers are more aggressive about caching data and not fully refreshing pages.
I sat down and did it on a desktop last night. I would spam search and wait a bit. Some particularly overloaded instances took longer (ie:lemmy.ml) then waited.
I basically had this page open with my instance url setup for the links to be properly formatted. https://lemmyverse.net/
Then had 2 or 3 duplicate tabs open for searching. I would go through one. Spam search. Go find another and do similar in the other tab. Then go check the first etc etc.
That would make sense. I haven’t been able to login on my instance today. All I get is the round arrow that spins forever. I tried in several browsers, couldn’t login. I only have access here because of Jerboa.
I have been considering opening my instance to others. The focus will not be on building communities but just federation and users.