I have a new Lemmy server (lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me) and I’ve noticed only communities I subscribe to show up.
The idea was to have my own local instance but I don’t see how I can find new communities without using another instance first and finding those communities there and then manually adding them to mine. I have found the following two github projects:
EDIT/NEW:
Does it sound right that I will have to use some app like these to be exposed to new communities?
Thanks all!
Use a site like browse.feddit.de to find communities you want to join and join them. Every instance only “has” their local communities plus whatever remote communities the users of the instance join. With more users it is more likely someone else has subscribed to something you are interested in, but someone on e.g. lemmy.world had to be the first user there to search and subscribe to any community that isn’t based on that instance.
Thanks! I was hoping it would auto-sync and get the newest communities but I understand now how it works. Thank you!
What’s interesting about this is that there really isn’t an r/All. All@lemmy.world will be different from All@beehaw.org, will be different from All@lemmy.ml, and will be VERY different from All@lemmynsfw.com
Yeah, this is kind of disappointing. There’s no consistent experience. What I see may be very different from what you see and while that’s in itself is not necessarily bad, it makes it hard to discover communities.
I guess it’s the price we pay for decentralization and I’m okay with that.