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Why is it that when I try to search by username, it says that person doesn't exist- yet I can see their posts. (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title pretty much says it all.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You have to put the instance name if you want to search for a user. I just did the same search on voyager for [email protected] and it went straight to their profile.

Otherwise yeah, the search probably defaults to only users on your server.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@[email protected] has the right of it. @[email protected], to search for a user not on your instance, you have search for 'username@instancedomain'. If you only search the username, it will search only in your local instance.

Edit : but when trying to tag somebody, it is able to search through other instances so maybe there is a way to implement the same technique to the search section.

Edit 2 : all my points above are for specifically how voyager behaves not how lemmyui and other clients do.