I want to find communities, so is there a community dedicated to finding communities?

    • Altair
      7•1 year ago

      This seriously needs to integrated into lemmy already. Not being able to see the true member count/activity of all communities is a massive blow to discoverability and very anti-ux, and likely the biggest hurdle for newcomers.

      • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Yep, would be nice. No one expected the massive influx of users, though. This suddenly changed from something extremely niche to something a lot of users at least know about.

        IMO the biggest hurdle for newcomers is that everyone is going to lemmy.world and then it’s slow and everything and they think Lemmy is slow because they don’t understand how federation works (which is understandable, it’s the first time they’re seeing something like that).

        • AltairEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          That’s another thing. People need to stop recommending the massive servers and recommend smaller ones like vlemmy.net, lemmy.one or lemm.ee instead, at lest until lemmy’soptimized for user counts of this scale. Those servers have also been upgraded for the surge of users after all, and everything’s connected anyway.

          In fact, I think lemmy clients should go as far as to assign new users randomly to good general servers like these upon registration so they don’t even have to know about instances; would make the onboarding much better

          • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            In fact, I think lemmy clients should go as far as to assign new users randomly to good general servers like these upon registration so they don’t even have to know about instances; would make the onboarding much better

            Yep, exactly what I was thinking, give them randomly and if they ever have the need to switch (because they know what that means), they can.

    • @Rheus@lemmy.world
      4•1 year ago

      Noob here. When I click the link of a page there I am not logged in. How can I watch and reply to this from lemmy.world?

      • Rikudou_SageA
        8•1 year ago

        Don’t click the title, click the text starting wirh ! (like !linux@lemmy.ml) and paste it into search on lemmy.world. It will find that community and you can then click it and join.

        Edit: If others are reading this, you can click the home button and setup your home instance, that way the links will correctly go to your instance and the whole process is much better!

      • Carly™
        4•1 year ago

        I’ve been using this userscript to redirect all links to my instance. If you’ve never installed a userscript, it’s pretty easy, you just need to install the Tampermonkey browser extension (there are others but it’s the one I use), then click the greasyfork link in the post I linked, and click install.

    • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world
      19•1 year ago

      This is the best equivalent on lemmy.world, but just in case you don’t know this about the Fediverse yet, you don’t need a community to be on your home instance to subscribe to it. If you find any community that you like on any other instance, you are able to subscribe by searching for that community from your home instance.

      Just wanted to let you know that you aren’t limited to the communities you see on the lemmy.world community page, or ones linked in c/newcommunities.

      • @kite@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        He said in his announcement that it would take a bit for the engine to crawl everything and grab other instances.

      • deejay4am
        1•1 year ago

        Try again now, seems pretty good to me? It was literally announced like an hour before I posted, so maybe they had growing pains.