YSK: lemmyverse.net is the best way to find active communities
YSK: lemmyverse.net is the best way to find active communities
You should know this because finding communities on lemmy can be tough.
Rule 2: make sure the body of your post contains Why YSK: and an explanation of why you should know.
And (at the moment, at least) we can edit the post title and body. So it is fixable. 👍
It's hiding kbin magazines. There should be no difference between kbin magazines and lemmy communities when searching and exploring.
And they could fix this if they wanted to.
Just wanted to drop this version here in case you weren't seeing any Kbin magazines on there- https://lemmyverse.net/kbin/magazines?order=followers
There's a toggle in the upper right menu to show Kbin magazines c:
If you mean some are missing though, apologies for the misunderstanding!There is a page in the menu for browsing Kbin magazines, but I agree. It would be better to have both on one page.
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For readability purposes, can you add "Why YSK:" and include the reason for this post in accordance to rule 2?
Because… ?
I’m still learning how2lemmy
Because if nobody on your instance has ever subscribed to a certain community on a different instance - it won't show up in search results on your instance.
lemmyverse allows for you to search for any community in any instance, even ones that your instance hasn't federated with yet. You can then search the community link in your home instance and then subscribe to that community, which will cause your instance to federate with it from them on.
Lemmy explorer is great. It made me realize the only way I knew how to find subreddits was to stumble on them.
Thank you!
I dont get why a third party site can see more of the fediverse than the fediverse can.
A brand new instance on the fediverse doesn't initially know about any other instances. Only when someone searches for a community@instance does it then go talk to that instance and subscribe to get posts/comments etc.
Maybe you can help me. I joined under Lemm.ee. I want to subscribe to c/catswithjobs@lemmy.world but it doesn't show up on my search list. What do I type in to find it?
It sees the same information, just aggregates it differently I guess.
They explain it on the project's GitHub:
How does discovery work?
It uses a seed list of communities and scans the equivalent of the /instances federation lists, and then creates jobs to scan each of those servers.
How long till my instance shows up?
How long it takes to discover a new instance can vary depending on if you post content that's picked up by one of these servers.
Since the crawler looks at lists of federated instances, we can't discover instances that aren't on those lists.
Additionally, the lists are cached for 24 hours, so it can take up to 24 hours for an instance to show up after it's been discovered till it shows up.
Same here. I understand the whole notion of how an instance is able to "see" communities on another instance on the fediverse. But I don't get what these kinds of website do differently to see all communities on all instances and why instances can't do that directly.
Bookmarked. 🙏
And to add, if you want more directly to see the data on activity of the instances and communities, switch the view to "List" from the default "Grid"
Cheers. Great little site
I love this website, it shows all the communities and instances without any biased filters whatsoever!
How do I use it? Do I search for the community in-app once I see it there?
Yeah, copy the link to the community and paste it into the search box on your instance. Then subscribe to it when it shows up. I always do this from the web interface but maybe it works through the app also.