Comment on How to see every sub under an instance?

otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pandasdontfly@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s… Tedious

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An easier way is to use lemmyverse.net/communities

    Set your home instance using the home icon on the right

    Select only the target instance with the instance filter

    Now you can see only the target instance communities, and clicking on them will open them on your home instance

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  • uservoid1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, on most instances NSFW communities are listed only if you are logged in and enable such content on your profile.

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    • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So is there a way to see those? A good example is lemming.online, which you can’t sign up for. The only alternative I’ve found is browse by new and just wait to see what communities pop up.

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      • MelonYellow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        lemmynsfw.com/communities ?

        Not sure what other NSFW instances off the top of my head. I think lemmit.online mirrors different subreddits, so maybe some NSFW options there

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy isn’t focused on everyone seeing everything but on keeping corporate interests and power tripping admins out. The idea is to encourage as many people as possible to run their own instance of Lemmy both to share the infrastructure costs and limit the power each instance holds. Keeping hosting costs down is why instances don’t pull from communities nobody is subscribed to.

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    • Pandasdontfly@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So, from what I can tell anyways, it does seem like the original answer is what you’re looking for. Each instance has a list of its own communities that you can see. You can also see a list of other instances that are federated to an instance by browsing to /instances (ex. https://lemmy.ca/instances shows all the instances lemmy.ca is federated with as well ss which ones are blocked). As far as I know, there is no way to see a list of all communities from all federated instances. There are some external sites that seem to have these sorts of lists like https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is possible using lemmyverse.net, I added a comment below

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks! That’s much easier

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• Lost_My_Mind@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A community only starts federating to your instance after someone on your instance subscribes to it

  That sounds like a really bad way to do this.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If not, someone could just set up a rogue instance, create fake communities on it, then start pushing a million pictures per minute to every Lemmy instance, exhausting their resources

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