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Discoverability of communities across instances (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If the spirit of the fediverse is to spread everything across small instances, then i think it would be really important to make communities, especially niche communities, easier to discover across instances. Since it is not planned to crawl federated instances community catalog, i think instance admins, or maybe even the lemmy software itself, should point more obvious to services like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities instead of the lemmy (or mbin, piefed) internal search. It's been a while since i have seen someone talk about these community crawler services.

Instances that don't federate a remote community won't even list this community in the user profile of a moderator.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I subscribe to [email protected] which I find rather nice

mbin also has a sidebar "random communities" which is quite useful and I moderately often click on stuff from it

It feels like maybe there should be a federated-community option like [email protected] that's a little less awkward to make use of; IDK what that would look like though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the trendingcommunities tip, subscribed it. It uses the lemmyverse crawler, so that is really good.

The problem with the mbin "random C's" is, i guess, that it'll only ever show c's which are already being federated, so already discoverable from the internal search.