[Bug]: GetCommunity sometimes not working with remote communities

[FriederHannenheim]

Summary

This is a bug I encountered while searching for new communities on browse.feddit.de. When I clicked on the link and they opened up in Jerbora the app got into a weird state and it didn't show the community. My home instance is lemmy.one but it happens on other instances too. GetCommunity returns { "error": "couldnt_find_community" } A community I've seen this happen with is dresden@feddit.de but there are others.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Perform a GET request on https://lemmy.one/api/v3/community?name=dresden@feddit.de
2. Try the same with https://feddit.de/api/v3/community?name=dresden@feddit.de and it works
3. This is also not working: https://infosec.pub/api/v3/community?name=dresden@feddit.de

Version

lemmy.one is on 0.17.3 and infosec.pub is on 0.17.4

[FriederHannenheim]

Ok it is a local community. My bad

[FriederHannenheim]

Local only means that it is home to a server, not that it is accessible on only that server. This issue is still valid

[Nutomic]

Are you logged in when making these requests? Because a community only gets fetched from a remote server if the request is made by an authenticated user.

[dessalines]

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