I also made a post collecting beginner guides for new lemmy users. Feel free to comment any new site and I’ll update the list.

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemmy.one
    8·
    1 year ago

    Yeah the community search on Lemmy leaves a lot to be desired. There’s no sort function and I’d like to be able to list them in order of activity. At this point I don’t know what to do other than scroll through pages and pages of listings. I’ll give those searches a try, very helpful.

    • TWeaK@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      Filtering would be nice, particularly by instance. I’ve had a few instances where I’ve opened the instance directly, saw a few I want to subscribe to, but then had to search for them one by one in my own instance.

      However you can set your home instance in Lemmyverse and get links for each instance via your own, where you can subscribe.

  • TWeaK@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    This website is great for looking at defederation: https://fba.ryona.agency/

    Mind you, it’s not quite perfect. Some instances aren’t on there yet - if you compare it with Lemmymap you’ll see that both are missing some things.

  • tartar@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    You’re doing great work man. Lemmymap and fedi-block in particular seem very neat. It’s crazy how many neat open source tools and projects have sprung up around the threadiverse

  • Mintyytea@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    The only thing that’d be cool is if these community browsers could add the search for other communities as well, like for the kbin aggregator’s communities. There’s one called RedditMigration (https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration or @RedditMigration) that has more than 250 posts, and it’s started on kbin.social. It would be cool to be able to search more easily other communities so that it’s easier to find the content on the fediverse.

    Kbin can improve its community search too but I am finding it easier to know about other communities not on kbin on its search. Whereas, on lemmy, maybe it’s because I’m on a lower population instance, but it’s very hard to find a community if it’s not on lemmy, and I didn’t already just know about it from the kbin account

    • TWeaK@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      Communities is definitely limited. You can’t sort them, you can’t filter them (particularly by instance when looking at All).

      The best way to discover new comms seems to be using Lemmyverse, apparently you can set it to your own instance so that links come up in your instance, where you’re logged in and can subscribe.

    • sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      There is one more step once you found an community you’d like to subscribe to. Take the link to the community (something like https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah ) and copy it into your home instance’s (the one you’ve made an account on) search page. for me it looks like this:

      Sometimes, it will say “No Results.” Just wait a view seconds, and maybe try to refresh. The server it mostly likely retrieving some posts and comments for the first time. Eventually, it will show up, click the result, and you’ll be directed to something like https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected] (with your home instance’s domain in place of mine) and you can subscribe from there.

  • gnomeroller@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is there a way to determine if an instance is defederated? I’m not sure I totally get it yet.

    I keep searching for [email protected] but it won’t appear in communities and I can’t tell if its because they are still setting up their instance, FMHY has blocked them, or they have blocked us.