How do I find communities on Lemmy?
How do I find communities on Lemmy?
Maybe it's an instance thing, maybe it's a Boost thing, but when I search for communities with the simple term "fitness" for example, I only get 5 results that have like, 30 members max.
I'm totally down with organically growing my community list over time just based on links and recommendations, but it is a bit annoying to not find communities when I'm pretty sure that they should exist.
Does anyone have tips on how to find things better?
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Lemmy only shows you how many people are subscribed from your instance. So it's not only 30 members, it's 30 members registered from the same instance you're on.
But here's the thing I don't understand. If there is a community tech@instanceA and tech@instanceB, are these two individual communities or are the posts shared between the instances? So does it matter at what instance a community located? I had guessed no, it doesn't matter and you are always subscribing to a certain topic, not a topic@instance, but I am not sure
They're completely separate. I've heard that they're working on ways to fix this issue, though.