I’m using Interstellar with a PieFed account, and I’ve found communities quickly and easily (including many on this instance) as soon as I start typing partial words. But I just discovered that skateboarding@lemmy.world and rollerskating@lemmy.world aren’t returned in searches unless I type out “!skateboarding@lemmy.world” in full. I only discovered these communities exist when I switched to Jerboa and my Lemmy account. Is this a quirk of federation, a mod setting, or something else?
I’m new to the Fediverse so please be gentle. 😂
Interesting. Thanks for the clear explanation. So in the beginning, it must have been like screaming into the void. I see that “Auto add” is off for lemmy.world. Is that also part of why I couldn’t find those communities?