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Ok, figured it out.
For those in similar cases, you MUST first search the community in the search bar here. Searching !golang@lemmy.ml only returned this thread initially, but after a few seconds the community appears in the search results.
From there, the community will sync here and will be visible here, with new posts appearing over time (afaik it doesn't sync existing posts, only new ones).
Hope this clears up the process for the next persons in my position :)
I tried this with !motogp@lemmy.world and it never returns, I’m guessing Lemmy.world isn’t federated yet?
It may not appear in search, but it is viewable here: https://sh.itjust.works/c/motogp@lemmy.world
Interesting, got a 404 last time I tried that. Thanks!
I find that searching by community string never actually returns any results. It's essential to make the search in order to add the community to the communities list, but you don't find anything useful that way.
But AFTER doing the community string search, I can do a keyword search and it works. So each of these searches is from the
communitiespage on the instance where you have your account...motogp, get no results because the community isn't known to your local instance.[!motogp@lemmy.world](/c/motogp@lemmy.world), get no results... because... I dunno. Because we can't have nice things is why.motogpagain and it works because now the community is known to your instance.I though the blahaj post was giving this same advice, but their steps are subtly different. Try the above if the sticky posts advice doesn't get it done for you.
Edit: I just tried the blahaj instructions and they DO work for me. Searching the bang-prefixed community with the "type" constrained to "communities" (or anything other than all) returns nothing. But searching the bang-prefixed community string with types set to "all" does return the community. No idea why it doesn't get returned when constrained to communities, seems like a bug.
I found that just searching for the URL works as well (as long as type is set to all)
Yeah, I just learned that today when making this comment. For the longest time it never occurred to me to set it to
all... since.. like... I'm definitely searching for a community. But lemmy disagrees I guess.yeah it took me a while to even register that those buttons were important lol. Hopefully it can get polished up a bit
It could be that the instance was down/overloaded. For example, I have been trying to connect to selfrepair@lemmy.ml today, but lemmy.ml is down. I can see and comment on existing posts from lemmy.ml though, so I'm interested to see how that works once it's back on-line (i.e. will it eventually show up?).
Good luck, maybe try again later! FWIW, I do see that community now, so I guess it got cached when @Orygin accessed it.