Does the Midwest server not store essentially dead communities from other servers? For example I can find and join technology@beehaw but not iasip@lemmy.ml. I am guessing because the IASIP community doesn’t meet some content or engagement threshold. But, I want to post there so it will meet the threshold! It seems like this could create duplicate communities across servers if small communities can’t be easily revived.
I tried searching in https://midwest.social/communities for both !usmlr@lemmy.ml and just “usmlr” at least a dozen times, as well as going to https://midwest.social/c/usmlr@lemmy.ml, but so far nothing is working.