Ok this is an odd one. If I am on an Iphone running wefwef (now voyager) and i search for (just for example) asians@lemmynsfw.com it will find that community. But if I go to my pc and do the same search it will say “Nothing to see here - this feed is completely empty”. the only differences are : on my phone I have the app on home screen and it looks like it is using Safari. On my pc i am using the brave browser to get to the site of lemmy.
any ideas of why it finds a community on the phone but not on the pc?
edit: ok after I made this post (via the pc) and tried a few more times to search for that community … it now shows up in the search … any ideas of why it is now finding it?
The first time anybody on your instance searches for a separate lemmy community, your Lemmy instance reaches out for the other community and learns that it exists. After that point it shows up in searches and after one person subscribes it appears in your instance’s All feed.
What’s interesting is it showed up under “all” which was how I first became aware of it. So I could see it under “all” but not if I did a search for it.
I’m more certain about the first search part.