Lemmy Support

It takes time for your instance to read and gather data about a community. It only does so when you search its address for the first time. I don't know if it keeps tabs on the community of no user subscribed to it on your instance though.

The popular instances can take a long time to respond. There’s no feedback in the UI either, you click search and then eventually the result will appear. Depending on what you search for, your instance collects more data than what you’re actually searching for.

In particular I am seeing this error when searching for example for: https://lemmy.world/c/science@beehaw.org

 2023-06-24T10:03:44.536671Z ERROR HTTP request{http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.krobier.com http.target=/api/v3/ws otel.kind="server" request_id=36cc840b-4954-4504-ae86-bcb822fbacbe http.status_code=101 otel.status_code="OK"}: lemmy_server::api_routes_websocket: couldnt_find_object: error decoding response body: expected value at line 1 column 1
    0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::search::search_query_to_object_id
              at crates/apub/src/fetcher/search.rs:17
    1: lemmy_apub::api::resolve_object::perform
            with self=ResolveObject { q: "https://lemmy.world/c/science@beehaw.org", auth: Some(Sensitive) }
              at crates/apub/src/api/resolve_object.rs:21
    2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
            with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.krobier.com http.target=/api/v3/ws otel.kind="server" request_id=36cc840b-4954-4504-ae86-bcb822fbacbe http.status_code=101 otel.status_code="OK"
              at src/root_span_builder.rs:16