Apologies for yet more dumb questions. Not sure if it’s a Thunder thing or a Lemmy thing.

When I go to search for new communities, I only get the option now to search within the instance I signed up on (Aussie.zone) instead of everywhere. Have I accidentally changed a setting somewhere?

  • Lophostemon@aussie.zoneOP
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    7 months ago

    Thank you. Do you mean by design of Thunder or the instance I’m on?

    Either way… why?!?! And why the change? It didn’t use to be like that.

    If it’s Thunder, then I’m bailing and getting a new app.

    • leo@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      It’s how Lemmy works: Your instance can only search what it knows.

      It didn’t use to be like that.

      Maybe I misunderstand something here, but this was always the case.

      • Lophostemon@aussie.zoneOP
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        7 months ago

        Well I’m confused because a few weeks ago I’m sure I used Thunder to browse for communities outside ‘mine’.

        • leo@sh.itjust.works
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          7 months ago

          Your local instance search will return communities from other instances if somebody on your instance already subscribes to them.

          As others already pointed out, search for the whole URL otherwise.

          • Lophostemon@aussie.zoneOP
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            7 months ago

            AHH!!! NOW! THAT’S interesting! How curious!!! What a whacky phenomenon!

            So in theory, if I set up a new account and subscribed to all 26k communities, (made up number) then everyone else on ‘my’ instance could see them too!