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 Mastengwe@lemm.ee to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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Title pretty much says it all.

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[-] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

You have to put the instance name if you want to search for a user. I just did the same search on voyager for dubyakay@lemmy.ca and it went straight to their profile.

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

[-] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@Ilikecheese@lemm.ee has the right of it. @Mastengwe@lemm.ee, 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.