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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In practice right now it can be a bit schetchy tbh. Finding and subscribing to them is flakey and searching can be a bit hit and miss too.

When it does all work both smoothly and seemlessly then we'll be golden.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes. Because there’s no centralised list of communities, searching is extremely difficult. Or if not, very time consuming. Following every iteration of every node.

I’m not sure how that can be overcome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That’s cool. I’ll check it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best way I can think of at the moment is a searchable website that gives you a link to click to seamlessly subscribe to them directly.

It'd be fine if the website is user submitted rather than having to interrogate all the servers on the back end, because the results would have seen a human eye and be better quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeh. I think there are websites that do that already. I haven’t really looked. But has to be some form of centralised list.