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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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No i think they do get it, it's exactly like how subreddits work, if you don't like how /r/technology works, you can always create a new tech based subreddit moderated anyway you like. The issue isnt that there are multiple communities.
The problem, as always, is discoverability of all of these disjointed communities. I'm still new to Lemmy, but it seems like you have to rely on an external 3rd party tool like https://browse.feddit.de/ to find any of them. (please correct me if there is a better way I just haven't found yet!)
That's a tool that exists and can be very helpful, but you can also browse all communities federated with your instance by just going to "Communities" and selecting "all". You can search for anything that way. It's not perfect and in desperate need of some filtering/sorting tools (coming in the future I believe), but you definitely don't have to use a third party tool! Also works on Jerboa, not sure about the iOS app.
This only seems to show communities that people have searched for by URL in the past, or communities that other users on the same server have subscribed to, or something like that. I have a Lemmy instance just for myself, and when I go to Communities then to All, it only shows communities I've subscribed to. I need to search for others by URL to be able to find them.
Thank you for the tip!
You're welcome! Happy browsing. Another tip that will have mixed results is to ask for recs in the chat community (either Beehaw's or other instances). It never ceases to amaze me how many random/niche communities there are that I'd never have thought to look for!