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It does seem to be harder to find niche communities not hosted on your instance, however if at least one person is interested in the niche community on your instance then it will show up in search without having to manually seek it out
So I guess it really depends on if users on your instance have similar interests or if everyone is willing to use the lemmy community browser to go find the communities they wish to find
I've had some troubles adding communities from the Lemmy Community Browser. I've mostly used Jerboa for Lemmy but entering something like
In the search section doesn't seem to pull up anything.
Maybe I just need to try to subscribe to things on desktop first
If someone on your instance hasn't subscribed to another instance then Jerboa can't see it so you will have to use the web browser from your instance to find it