Let me give you an example:

  • there is a community on lemmy.world (whereisthisplace) - https://lemmy.world/c/whereisthisplace

  • I go on lemmy.ml and search for whereisthisplace

  • my search parameters are: {Communities} {All} {Top All Time}, {Community: All} {Creator: All}

  • but when I search for (eg.) Apple I get “Apple@lemmy.world”

is it because no one is subscribed form this istance?

  • Fluffysquash@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Because someone on your instance has already searched for the community directly or subscribed to it so it has been federated to your instance.