Comment on Discoverability of communities across instances
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt’s not even 50 instances on there though, and almost half of them seem to be disabled. Not just .world, also .ml, slrpnk, feddit.de - that is a huge chunk of the lemmyverse. I don’t know if that is the solution, certainly not as it is now.
Ategon@programming.dev 2 months ago
Even with the disabled instances, communities that get added onto there reach a much larger section of people than external community browsers do as casual users that just check the site once a day or something and don’t pay attention to external sites can still stumble on them without knowing the federate site exists
Ideally more instances would get added onto there but its still fine like this. Been getting some nice interactions and starting activity on new programming.dev communities
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, it is certainly better than nothing, that is absolutely fair, and probably makes a lot of sense to use for people who can.
Sadly i can’t, because “my” community is on .world. I used a similar “relay” type thing some time ago, but not sure how well it worked.
grumpy_graph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, i also don’t think it’s pointless.
Those instances opting out (if they did) probably has a good reason.
I just think it would be good to point users to some kind of crawler that knows all the communities. Searching communities under “all” from within lemmy is almost misleading. I feel like it mainly also affects smaller instances and communities.