this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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When coming from reddit, one has a list of subreddits and is probably looking for similar communities. Could we help that search somehow? It is harder than on reddit because matching communities are distributed across multiple instances.

Would it make sense to maintain an awesome list? Or a separate community "looking for community"?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Lemmy Community Browser to the rescue! Good for finding communities across all instances

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

Proposing communities that people like with similar subscriptions as you could be a convenient feature for lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That would be co

[–] Barbarian 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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

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 🤞

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

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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