Lemmy Community Browser to the rescue! Good for finding communities across all instances
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Proposing communities that people like with similar subscriptions as you could be a convenient feature for lemmy.
That would be co
In terms of community mods advertising their new stuff, there's [email protected].
It is harder than Reddit for sure, but a lot of problems are growing pains. I'm actually hoping that in a few months, once things calm down and people have a good idea how things work, papercuts are fixed and communities stabilize, that we have a good mix of topic instances and regional instances, and people go to the communities on instances specialising in them.
In other words, I'm hoping that people stop treating lemmy.ml as the "main" instance, and go to places like https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com for gaming communities, https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech for music artist & genre communities, https://lemmy.studio for music creation and instrument communities, https://pathfinder.social for pathfinder stuff, etc etc.
TL;DR: It's understandable that people are going crazy with communities right now, but I honestly hope that the "main" communities that eventually win out are on instances specialising in them.
Lemmy newbie here. There are infinite number of kbin or lemmy instances so there are infinite number of local communities with the same name such as “video” or “technology”.
How do I know which one(s) to subscribe? If i don’t, the remote communities won’t federate to my server.
Right now it's a bit wild west, but I think for now the best is to just sub to the "most active" community and let that become the "main" community
If theres no obvious most-active one, just sub to both/all and see which one emerges
I'm hoping future versions of search will allow searching all federated instances for communities. This entire thing with having to go look for communities on instances manually and copy pasting links, that's actually solvable with software.
Yeah this is very clunky at the moment. Especially on a smaller server where most communities aren't yet known to your instance. I saw another comment saying its a priority by the devs to improve this, so fingers crossed 🤞
I used search. This way you can also just click a button to sign up. I have browsed lists but it’s more work to sign up
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