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I'm not sure if you're experiencing the same issue I did... but when I was setting up my community subscriptions on a new instance where few folks had done that before, I encountered some confusing (to me) patterns around when remote communities become available for search or browsing in the local instance's community list. I wrote up my observations at https://lemmy.world/comment/505.
Maybe this will help you figure out how to get a given remote community to show up in your instance's community list. Though the fact that you're talking about the bang-prefixed strings make me thing if my solution was going to work for you it already would have. But check out the comment and see if it helps.
I can't comment on your other post because it doesn't load in my instance (another issue I don't fully understand...), but I just wanted to say thank you. Now that I know what to look for, your description matches what I see exactly.
One detail I would add is that the lemmy search can say "No Results" while it's still fetching in the background, so in the "Time 1" scenario, Janet may well see the result pop up if she just waits a little while even though the search looks like it has already completed.
Whoah, that's news to me. I updated the comment to reflect that new info and uncertainty about the possible results. Thanks to you too for that info.