Had to split post (because it’s loo long?), see comments.

url result status
https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight@lemmy.world shows up, up-to-date 🟢
https://sh.itjust.works/c/ultralight@lemmy.world shows up but all votes and comments missing 🟡
https://lemmy.one/c/ultralight@lemmy.world shows up, some votes missing 🟡
https://midwest.social/c/ultralight@lemmy.world couldnt_find_community 🔴
https://feddit.nl/c/ultralight@lemmy.world couldnt_find_community 🔴
https://lemmy.nz/c/ultralight@lemmy.world couldnt_find_community 🔴
https://sopuli.xyz/c/ultralight@lemmy.world couldnt_find_community 🔴
https://mander.xyz/c/ultralight@lemmy.world shows up, some votes missing 🟡
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/ultralight@lemmy.world couldnt_find_community 🔴
https://lemm.ee/c/ultralight@lemmy.world shows up, some votes missing 🟡
https://vlemmy.net/c/ultralight@lemmy.world show up, all posts missing 🟡
https://feddit.de/c/ultralight@lemmy.world couldnt_find_community 🔴
https://lemmy.ca/c/ultralight@lemmy.world shows up, some votes missing 🟡
  • miles@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I see, so discovery happens out of band, so in order to find it someone has to already have found it. “Search All” is only searching what has already been found on this particular instance, and so the results can vary depending on where you are.

    • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Exactly, your instance stores what you post (local) on it and what gets federated to it (cache, basically). You search those local and cached things. To do it some other way would basically man that either all instances somehow discover each other and send everything to each other all the time or your instance somehow discovers and searches all other instances when you do a search.

      There has been talk about something that should make things better as far as “couldnt_find_community” more or less auto-searching a remote community when you go to a /c/community@example.com sort of link so the experience is less jarring and doesn’t require you to know you have to do a search.