https://midwest.social/c/chicago
Both instances are on each other’s list of linked instances but I couldn’t get there from here via search. I had to manually add in /c/chicago@midwest.social in the address bar and subscribe from there before it started showing up in search. Is that normal…?
I am not subscribed to Tulsa@midwest.social, but that one doesn’t show up in community search.
Community content of “less popular” instances will show up in search once at least 1 person on this instance has subscribed to it.
I will add midwest.social to the seeder script on the server to have it periodically look up the most popular communities on there and subscribe to them automatically using a bot account, which has the same effect.
Result:
Oh I see, so that’s by design… That list of instances is pretty long so I imagine an index of all their communities would be huge… and there’s not separate “list of communities” and “posts within an instance” indices I assume? Is this something I should ask the lemmy devs about