I’m usually unable to access new communities or instances using the typical process described of putting the handle or URL into the search bar. I noticed this from the beginning, but I waited a couple days to become more familiar with how it worked properly, and in a couple cases things seem to have improved somewhat. But the problem in general remains.
I understand that this could be a general problem not exclusive to Baraza, but I thought I should mention it here in case there are some special or unique conditions applied that I did not know about.
As it happens, Lemmy maintainers did a major release (0.18) and moving from the previous deploy (0.17.4) broke a lot of things. Even this version is finicky to say the least. I have sought to add more RAM to the simple VPS I run for this. I have never had any issues with upgrades since 2020 but the reddit-api moment must have pushed everything to the limits.
That said, I can advise that you try another instance just in case.
