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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Lemmy instances only know about communities in other instances until a user searched for it, so a bigger instance like lemmy.ml is more likely to already have each community you search for.
But an instance like mine won't have them unless I manually search for them to be imported.
And also, in my instance I won't be getting updates from that community to see in the "all" feed until I subscribe, so my "subscriptions" will be the same as "all".
Still learning, so take with salt.
Someone has to be the first to discover a community. Let's say we're looking for https://lemmy.example/c/community a.k.a. community@lemmy.example
You can discover it by prefixing a bang: !community@lemmy.example
Oddly enough, it also sometimes helped me to search for 'All', not specifically for 'Communities', in order to discover communities.
Sometimes all of that did not work, but I could visit the community with a manually constructed link. Say my home instance is home.instance, then the link would be: https://home.instance/c/community@lemmy.example
I try all of these and eventually succeed. Sometimes it takes up to 1 day though. I guess and hope that's due to the load caused by the reddit migration.
Probably what's happening is your instance is still doing the initial import of the community.
When someone searches for a community for the first time the instance also fetches 20 posts (I'm guessing the most recent ones).
Because of this the search result for the first time will not contain the community, after a few minutes it will appear.
One thing is for sure, you need to use the correct format to denote a community and also do it in the search page.