From what I understand, in order for you to be able to see a community from another instance, it has to have been looked at by someone else from your instance, or something like that? But I'm not sure how it works.

For example, I've been trying to get to lemmy.world/c/geometrydash from here, but it doesn't show up in search (I'm using jerboa), and going to the url beehaw.org/c/geometrydash@lemmy.world doesn't seem to work. So, how does it work?

At this point it seems that being in a more popular instance is generally better because most of those connections will already be there.

Edit: well it worked magically now (with that you said below) soo 🤷

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[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We’re federated with that instance already though, I thought, so it’s strange that it wasn’t showing up with other search terms.

From what I've been seeing, there seem to be some delays in the search surfacing results for communities from other instances. I was searching for a community over in lemmy.sdf.org from this instance (lemmy.world) and despite folks from there posting in world (which should federate them, I think?), it still took a few tries & waiting a moment for a community from sdf to show up in search results.