Fediverse memes

There is such a web resource but I haven't bookmarked it and couldn't easily find it offhand so I will leave that to you to do, but I do keep seeing it pop up in various discussions like this so it won't be terribly difficult to find - it's very likely mentioned in this exact post already:-).

There are multiple meanings to "discoverability", one being how a new user coming from let's say Reddit or X finds content to consume. This is where PieFed's Categories of Communities really shines through, the chief alternatives on Lemmy being sorting by All, or communities where new communities are discussed, or the aforementioned webpage. Every solution has its disadvantages as well as advantages, e.g. PieFed's Categories require admin approval to change, though custom user-defined collections are being discussed to be added to the 2025 Roadmap. Still, Categories of Communities existing in the first place is already a huge step ahead, compared to Lemmy, in that one narrow regard. And yes, on PieFed someone can also still sort by All.:-) The best solution that I have heard of that comes close to such topic collections is to have multiple accounts possibly across multiple instances and use each one for a different purpose - like News, Memes, Technology, Movies, Science, Programming, etc. What a pain... but it does work, according to Blaze who does it.

And the second as you stated well is the interconnection between PieFed and Lemmy, plus also Mbin, Sublinks, and some people (not me!!) may say Threads too, plus perhaps more besides in the future, and also perhaps Mastodon, Friendica, and other services altogether besides. I highly doubt that the Lemmy developers, the same ones who run lemmy.ml, are going to care about such - they made a Reddit replacement for themselves, and that's all they really wanted. If someone wants differently, then it's up to others to make that happen on their own. But who knows, I could be wrong:-). Then again, just how much do leftist extremists want to hear from the Alt-Right MAGATs on Reddit? :-P

Not everyone wants to maximize the amount of people using the Fediverse. And in particular these kinds of across-instance collaboration tools are the least well developed parts of Lemmy, e.g. right now reports are not even federated to a mod on some other instance than where the community is located (although this is planned for possibly as soon as 0.19.20).

Beehaw has defederated from Lemmy.World btw, and Lemmy.World has defederated from hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml. Lemmy.ml is defederated from none of the largest instances, so ironically it likely has the largest collection of communities, despite how many people routinely get banned from that instance despite never having even visited those communities or even heard about them before. One rule for thee, while a different one for me... the ultimate authoritian communist mantra. Still, so long as instances are too afraid to defederate from it, that fact (that it has the most comprehensive listing of communities across the Fediverse) will remain true.