Currently searching for existing communities on other instances doesn’t always show results (if no user on your instance has already subscribed).
A workaround I have found is to search for a post from that community, after which you can access the community via the link near the username of the OP.
From there you can subscribe.
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Copy the URL of the community page on the remote instance into the search on the local instance, lemmy then will show you the community as a search result.
I tried this and it didn’t work, which is why I’m suggesting this approach
How long did you wait for a result? Checking on this method, I can see that initially it shows no results when I did a test search for https://lemmy.ml/c/aboringdystopia, but after several seconds, it appeared on the result page.
Took awhile when searching for !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml as well. So, it seems to be happening, just not terribly quickly at the moment.
Impatience then is it? Lol I think you’re right!
Heh, possibly!
I think there’s a bit of clumsiness with it at the moment (it would be great if there was a visual indicator that it was still working on grabbing the details on the backend, or whatever), could be worthwhile checking to see if there’s an issue filed for improving that.