Maybe it’s an instance thing, maybe it’s a Boost thing, but when I search for communities with the simple term “fitness” for example, I only get 5 results that have like, 30 members max.

I’m totally down with organically growing my community list over time just based on links and recommendations, but it is a bit annoying to not find communities when I’m pretty sure that they should exist.

Does anyone have tips on how to find things better?

  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy only shows you how many people are subscribed from your instance. So it’s not only 30 members, it’s 30 members registered from the same instance you’re on.

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      1 year ago

      But here’s the thing I don’t understand. If there is a community tech@instanceA and tech@instanceB, are these two individual communities or are the posts shared between the instances? So does it matter at what instance a community located? I had guessed no, it doesn’t matter and you are always subscribing to a certain topic, not a topic@instance, but I am not sure