When coming from reddit, one has a list of subreddits and is probably looking for similar communities. Could we help that search somehow? It is harder than on reddit because matching communities are distributed across multiple instances.
Would it make sense to maintain an awesome list? Or a separate community “looking for community”?
Lemmy Community Browser to the rescue! Good for finding communities across all instances
In terms of community mods advertising their new stuff, there’s !findacommunity@lemmy.ml.
It is harder than Reddit for sure, but a lot of problems are growing pains. I’m actually hoping that in a few months, once things calm down and people have a good idea how things work, papercuts are fixed and communities stabilize, that we have a good mix of topic instances and regional instances, and people go to the communities on instances specialising in them.
In other words, I’m hoping that people stop treating lemmy.ml as the “main” instance, and go to places like https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com for gaming communities, https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech for music artist & genre communities, https://lemmy.studio for music creation and instrument communities, https://pathfinder.social for pathfinder stuff, etc etc.
TL;DR: It’s understandable that people are going crazy with communities right now, but I honestly hope that the “main” communities that eventually win out are on instances specialising in them.
I’m hoping future versions of search will allow searching all federated instances for communities. This entire thing with having to go look for communities on instances manually and copy pasting links, that’s actually solvable with software.
Yeah this is very clunky at the moment. Especially on a smaller server where most communities aren’t yet known to your instance. I saw another comment saying its a priority by the devs to improve this, so fingers crossed 🤞
Proposing communities that people like with similar subscriptions as you could be a convenient feature for lemmy.
That would be cool
I created https://lemmyverse.net/communities over the weekend. It’s not perfect, but IMO it’s better than the https://browse.feddit.de/ explorer. I made it open source so anyone can contribute/run their own https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer
It’s showing just a white page for me
What device? I did some changes to make it better on mobile phones.
Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android, same in Chrome
Ah I’m a big dum dum, I had geo-restrictions from an earlier version. 💩 Should work now, thanks 🤣
It works, thanks! Nice site 👍
Awesome, good to hear :) I’m hoping to add more functionality including:
- Show Suggested Instances to Join
- Score Instances and Communities and sort according to activity/trust.
- Remove instances that are blocked by (more than 10?) other instances.
I’ve also put the source over at https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer :)
Lemmy newbie here. There are infinite number of kbin or lemmy instances so there are infinite number of local communities with the same name such as “video” or “technology”.
How do I know which one(s) to subscribe? If i don’t, the remote communities won’t federate to my server.
Right now it’s a bit wild west, but I think for now the best is to just sub to the “most active” community and let that become the “main” community
If theres no obvious most-active one, just sub to both/all and see which one emerges
I used search. This way you can also just click a button to sign up. I have browsed lists but it’s more work to sign up
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