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?
Ignore the user counts you see. That’s only users on your local instance that are subbed to it, not all.
Your home instance may not be aware of all communities because reasons.
Take a look at lemmyverse.net
Also, communities here just don’t have that many users.
Indeed Lemmyverse.net is the way.
And AFAIK the number of subscribers only refers to your instance so there might be more from other instances.
Lemmy’s subscriber user count is usually wrong.
You only see the true number if the community is on your instance
Check the community from the original instance to see the actual number of subscribers
If you’re searching for instances, you should use https://lemmyverse.net/communities since it lets you quickly compare subscribers, shows you more results and also is just better overall
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.
Besides already mentioned methods there’s also Lemmy Community-Browser.
It has a search bar and ability to toggle specific instances in case you want to avoid some of them. A bit simpler version of Lemmy Explorer mentioned by @DogMuffins.
There’s !findacommunity@lemmy.ml and !FindAKbin@kbin.social
Can you tell me how the ! Commands work? Where do I put them? Search? I am on kbin if it matters.
Basically you just write out !(community/magazine name)@(instance address) and it should automatically format when you post.
For example, this place would be !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world but it should work with Lemmy or Kbin just fine.
sub.rehab shows where Reddit communities went during the blackout. A lot of those communities are still going pretty strong. You can filter its list down to just lemmy and kbin instances.
When you search for communities, make sure you’re using the setting to search all instances, instead of just your local instance. Not sure how the UI is set up on Boost.
The one I can see has 80, but fyi these counts are buggy anyway. So don’t rely on them.
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