Am I doing something wrong? I search communities with key word weather and find no communities with over a few to maybe a dozen subscribers.

I want to ask for advice on a good Android weather widget. ‘Ask Android’ is a community I will place a question on but naturally the best place would be ‘Android Apps’ which is a ghost town and weather communities are also like ghost towns.

Are there communities out there that I’m not seeing somehow? Please help?!

I don’t want to use Reddit but may have to on some of these niche communities due to sparse activity.

    • elmicha@feddit.de
      9·
      11 months ago

      Which app is this? It finds a lot. Although 3k subscribers everywhere look a bit suspicious.

      • Amilo159@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        I stopped using Jerboa because of search issues. Liftoff and Voyager (wefwef) are the best so far for my use.

      • snota@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        11 months ago

        I also don’t get them on Jerboa. What instance are you on? I think that communities wont show up in your instance unless someone has already accessed them. If you search directly for the ones in the post above, they should show up. I think you have to put an exclamation mark in front of the term. E.g.
        !weather@community.xy

        Hope that works.

        • acrobaticpenguin23@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          11 months ago

          I am subscribed to Lemmy.world instance and I still don’t have weather@lemmy.world show in search results.

          Looks like different Lemmy App is in order.

          • snota@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            You could post a bug on the Jerboa community. It might be known and have a fix out soon. I think most apps have their own quirks. Either way, let me know if you have any success.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Discovery on Lemmy is still in its infancy. Lots of friction. When you do a search for a community, you’re only searching your home instance, so if your home instance is never been subscribed or connected to those other communities they won’t be returned in your search. So that’s something that’s going to have to improve to make Lemmy more general user friendly

      • acrobaticpenguin23@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        That I can see, lol. Plus can’t ask my question in that community. I believe its against that communities rules. They direct those to AskAndroid.