I have a lemmy account on lemmy.sdf.org
When searching for communities to join I can see several in the list from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org
but while searching for some communities that I know exist on lemmy.ml or beehaw.org I am getting no results
will a community from instance A only appear in search results on instance B if a user from instance B has already manually subscribed to that specific community from instance A?
basically, there is no scraping of ‘all available’ communities even when two instances know of each others existence? only ‘specific communities’ are indexed when a user has manually found/subscribed?
yeah for me its mainly laziness so I don’t have to use an external site to search
but new users who may not be aware of external directories could have trouble finding niche communities if no one from their instance has subscribed yet
just a user experience thing I was thinking about