For example: I tried to search all 3 communities from sopuli.xyz featured in this comment https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/t/2938/Which-subreddits-would-you-most-like-to-see-on-Lemmy/comment/6790/
search for y2kaesthetics did not work
for frutigeraero returned only my comment linked above
only for weirdcore succeeded
I feel like cross-instance community discovery should be improved. Searching for “linux” should bring up all communities from all federated instances. I should be able to merge instances for viewing, so that I can see both @linux and @linux as a single feed.
This is already working for me today: I discovered several magazines this way, and a search for “linux” brings up groups on other instances:
https://kbin.social/magazines?q=linux
The third result on that page is
@linux@lemmy.ml– do you not see the same?As long as it’s optional and you’re able to choose which ones you merge.
I totally get how that could be useful, but it’s not something I’d want. There are federated instances that I mostly avoid, like lemmy.ml, which which welcomes and encourages CCP propaganda and disinformation.