Similarly to the post I made earlier on The Elder Scrolls, I may be missing a few communities that already exist due to lemm.ee being on a slightly behind server version - but on the chance that there isn’t already a Fire Emblem community here, I decided to fix that.
There is !fireemblem@lemmy.world and https://lemmy.fromshado.ws instance seems to be focued on Fire Emblem.
it’s so weird, the lemmy.world instances aren’t showing up for me in my searches. Maybe it’s a server thing
Lemmy.world is still running version 0.17.4, that might explain your issues.
In case you didn’t know, you can also browse communities from https://browse.feddit.de/
There is also lemmyverse.net/communities, and check my other comment. It is not due to the version difference.
This isn’t quite how federation works. And we are only seeing this problem so much because a lot of communities are being created right now with the influx of users. Communities that are established and popular would already be federated to most multi-user servers.
Each server, when you search, can only bring you results from communities it knows about. What each server knows, is limited to the bare minimum. Otherwise, every server would have to download and contain the entire fediverse. A HUGE amount of data, and part of the idea of the fediverse is to only make each node as big as it needs to be.
As such, the way it works is that each server only knows about stuff that at least ONE user has SPECIFICALLY told it about. This way each server only needs to contain stuff that the users on it actually want.
For a community to federate over to another server, one user on that server must search for it specifically using either the url of the community, or its name in the
!name@instan.ceformat. Once the first user does this, the server will form that connection and bring that community over. This happens community by community.This way, each server only needs to contain the parts of other servers, that are actually needed.
