SOLUTION FOUND - thank you

There is a community called Tarot on lemmy.world, and I want to subscribe to it. The url is https://lemmy.world/c/tarot. I’ve been to lemmy.world when not logged in and I can see it there. But when I try to find it from here, I can’t. I tried putting !tarot@lemmy.world in the search and got “no results found”. I’ve been told that “someone needs to search for it, for it to appear”, but I have already tried to search for it, many times. What else needs to happen for me to be able to see and subscribe to this community?

Or do I just have to make a second account on lemmy.world?

  • @sixfoldEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    It seems like there are a few different issues:

    • There is no way to discover communities for the first time for a particular instance without leaving your instance webpage
    • Viewing a previously unfederated, or recently federated server is missleading, since votes and comments are missing, and so posts are not sorted, and also often missing since they were posted pre-federation.
    • Even on a federated instance, there is no interface to view all the communities present on that instance.(especially ones older than the date of federation) without leaving your home instance (appearing to be logged out)

    All these issues put together makes for a clunky discovery process, and separates the ability to interact with a community from the act of viewing it for the first time. (You have to leave your instance to view it in it’s entirety, but since you’re no longer logged in, you can no longer interact with these posts unless you copy and search for every individual post AND each comment that you want to interact with from your home instance)