Actually, keepass warning you is a feature. When I first set up my account I put in the strongest password keepass would let. Lemmy approved it. But I soon learned later that lemmy cut the password short and didn’t tell me. (I learned using the API)

So no bug except lemmy not yelling the user itself. Or maybe that was when I first set up my instance… I forget… I’ve got the memory of a frog

You’re welcome self!

(I’m such a dork)

[resolved]

To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.

• lemmy instances are not automatically connected
• at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
• to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example: !cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up
• click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
• ok… Now you have 1 extra community… What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it’s terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.