Using this on Firefox on my s23 works really well.

I’ve only made one community on my instance !hhkb which is a super niche group that I was a part of on reddit.

Yeah my comment didn’t age well. Lol.

I ended up spinning up a small instance so I can federate with both

Try typing just hu or into the search function. Lemmy.world and beehaw should be fully federated so you shouldn’t have to search the complete path