From mastodon to follow an account or a community on lemmy you use the @name@server format and there is no difference between a community name and a user-name
so i was wondering if anyone tried and checked what happened
From mastodon to follow an account or a community on lemmy you use the @name@server format and there is no difference between a community name and a user-name
so i was wondering if anyone tried and checked what happened
When you do a search, the default is “All,” which is why your search results had a bit of everything. If you had chosen “Users” or “Communities” then you would have gotten only users or only communities, respectively.
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=world%40lemmy.world&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Notice no community result.
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=world%40lemmy.world&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Also no community result. On my instance, I could scroll to the end of the list, and when the call to the resolve endpoint returns, the user but not the community gets added as a single entry to the very end. Like I say, no idea what that’s about, although it seems to be a bug distinct from the bug I’m describing,
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fc%2Fworld&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Also doesn’t work? That’s a little strange, honestly. Like I say, no idea. I’m just describing the somewhat different but also wrong behavior I see on my instance.
You’re putting the instance name (“@lemmy.world”) in the search term, which is why the searches are failing. If you already know the user or community you’re looking for, then why would you be searching for it? You already have it!