seems not scaleable. I thought you could subscribe at one instance, then browse communities from all instances and read and comment no matter if your instance has it in their Allowed list or not ? (apart from the ones in Blocked)
My understanding is that if any user from your instance subscribes to a community, that community is searchable in the Communities list from your instance from then on… it doesn’t have to be you specifically. Some user does have to find the community (likely via a search specifically for it) originally, though.
Discoverability definitely seems like a challenge.
I’m also thinking of setting up a server (would host a public Synapse instance and maybe Mastodon too), and thought about this same issue.
Perhaps a bot that just goes through a list of known instances and just subscribes to communities would do it? Might be a bit heavy though. Not sure how much load Lemmy federation puts on the server.
A user subscribes to a community, not the instance. I’ve emptied the Allowed list and now the All communities list is growing as users search for community-urls on other servers.
On browse.feddit.de you can find a list of all communities together, don’t know hoe they do that
Yes, you are correct. I was however talking about how to make it convenient for new users unfamiliar to the Lemmy system to find communities to subscribe to. The point was to get the built-in search to show as much communities as possible.
The current system is not convenient or clear for the average person at all. Not complaining or anything, but that’s just a fact. I got started two days ago, and the number of “how to find communities” posts in that time is quite high. Took me the first day too.
agree, there is quite a learning curve. I still don’t get why I can’t see comments to my post on a different server. But when I log in on another server thats also reading from that community I see the comments there
