I’ve been trying to get the app setup today, and I’m struggling to find communities through search. It seems like the search is only checking communities on my instance, not everywhere? Not sure if I’m missing something but I can’t find a way to search the broader fediverse.

      • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        That is a Lemmy is ran by thousands of individuals who do not want to pay out of pocket to allow every server in the fediverse to waste their resources running search queries all day limitation.

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          1 year ago

          Definitely a bad user experience for an everyday pleb like myself. Seems like a solution will be needed for that eventually if we want wider adoption. That’s far beyond the scope of Boost, though, so I’ll leave it there. Thanks for the explanation.

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    1 year ago

    When I search for e.g. “iama”, I get several communities from several instances. Seems to work for me. Maybe your instance isn’t federating correctly? Or maybe you’re looking for niche communities that simply don’t exist anywhere? Do other clients/apps work?

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      1 year ago

      What you see when you search, and what everyone around you sees, is different and depends on what instances your instance talks to.