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To everyone that keeps perpetuating "there's too many repeat communities on Lemmy" - please give examples.
The only example I've been able to find is c/Technology on Beehaw and c/Technology on lemmy.ml
The latter is failing to federate today (or has been down entirely), which is proving why this "problem" is actually a good thing. We can continue to talk on Beehaw's c/Technology while lemmy.ml sorts itself out.
Do you have any other examples? I haven't seen any. I'm starting to wonder if this concern is being repeated by people who don't actually use Lemmy.
Well, not really, I am very new to this. But that's another issue, I see no good way to find communities. You can go to that site and search for them, or hope they come up on your instance's search, but I see no way to find new communities you don't already know of. That also makes it so you don't know if the one you found is necessarily the one, although that could be fixed when more people come here and things develop more
Now that I completely agree with! People are begging for this kind of feature, and I see some talks to make PRs for it (I think one even has a bounty?)
Hopefully we'll see more about this soon.
But another thing to note, lemmy.ml is where most of the established communities are, but it's way overloaded with the exodus and is failing to federate right now. So it might look a bit thin for you on Beehaw, but there is actually plenty of content on lemmy.ml if you go there yourself. Sadly you can't make an account, but you can go there to see what you're missing. And once they sort out their server issues in the coming days, all that missing content will be available to you on Beehaw, and you'll be able to post/comment/like/etc when they do.
By the way, until there is a better, more official way to find communities, I recommend looking in these places:
https://browse.feddit.de/ - pretty nice, has a search bar
https://lemmy.directory/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 - An instance that federates with "every" server and lists them here.
Until more clean ways of discovering communities makes their way into Lemmy, these should do a good job of getting you started!
Thanks!
Right now I have an account in beehaw, lemm.ee and vlemmy.net. I know it's overkill, but it was mostly because I still don't understand how things like NSFW and no downvotes work when you're in communities from other instances. I'll probably end up with just one when I figure it out tho
I am also very new here, and maybe this feature already exists, but I think it might be cool for community operators to sort their communities into a limited range of "tags" (or "topics," or any other similar word), then the user can filter their searches by any number of tags.
Just go to all to see posts from all instances, there you can find new communities easily
There are at least 6 different communities for selfhosting.
Hopefully this can be solved with (relatively) simple UI work.