It should theoretically search your home server’s known communities list … and it’s rather a filter than a search box, because the results change as i type, and when i press enter, they disappear. That’s a little sketchy there. Looks as if it constantly makes queries to the server while i type, therefore it may happen ATM, that there are no results because the server is unresponsive.
Anyway, the way the federation currently works, is that community creations are not broadcast to all instances, and therefore your server may not yet be aware of some community somewhere else. In such a case, it’s recommended to use another tool, like the Lemmy Community Browser: https://browse.feddit.de/
Let’s hope that doesn’t get overloaded…
It should theoretically search your home server’s known communities list … and it’s rather a filter than a search box, because the results change as i type, and when i press enter, they disappear. That’s a little sketchy there. Looks as if it constantly makes queries to the server while i type, therefore it may happen ATM, that there are no results because the server is unresponsive.
Anyway, the way the federation currently works, is that community creations are not broadcast to all instances, and therefore your server may not yet be aware of some community somewhere else. In such a case, it’s recommended to use another tool, like the Lemmy Community Browser: https://browse.feddit.de/
Let’s hope that doesn’t get overloaded…