NRSK made a small website to introduce new users to the basics of Lemmy and give them an (incomplete) list of Lemmy Communities.
Hopefully this will help users find a lot of interesting content across the network, despite the home instance not federating with a particular community yet.
Such a list was something that was sorely missed when the NRSK administrator first became a user on the lemmyverse, and quite so after creating a new and isolated instance.
As mentioned, it is an unofficial site and if the devs disapprove, I can make the "unofficialness" of it clearer or discuss how we can make it work.
Manually sorting, cataloguing and estimating activity on 283 communities sure was something.
That's why everybody is welcome to contribute to the list by submitting your own suggestions and corrections in the linked community. As of now the list is curated manually, I assume I've made several errors - Particularly when it comes to what "Topic" the different communities belong in.
Yes, you can sort nearly 300 communities by:
- Topic
- Name
- Instance
- Activity
- Recommendation
A lot of it could have been scraped the first time around I assume, but then there'd be no sorting by topic for sure.
You can visit the "Welcome" community by following the post link or visit https://nrsk.no/c/welcome.
Link to the website
Link to the big list of communities
Looks good, thanks for making this!
One problem I noticed is that the community list doesnt have any clickable links, so you have to manually open the link, a bit annoying (unless i missed something). The list also includes some non-Lemmy instances like narwhal.city, but for me thats not a big problem as you can still follow it from Lemmy. If you want, you could use nodeinfo to check that instances are really using Lemmy.
I used to be on Mastodon which had a function to "Remote follow" profiles on remote instances. I haven't seen the function in Lemmy, and the only way I know how to subscribe to remote communities not federated is to copy-paste and search for the URL from within Lemmy.
Adding a link seemed like an extra step, follow link, open page, copy URL from browser URL field, paste etc. Is there a better way to subscribe besides searching for the URL?
Good point. I have no strong opinions either way, and is looking for more feedback from other users. But the most important thing is that only lemmy instances are shown as a new home instance.
There's been some suggestions on a "Join random instance" button on the welcome site, what do you think? Right now it's just linked to directly to join-lemmy/instances.
This is a good idea which has come up a lot recently. I think it would be very useful, hopefully we will have time to implement it soon. Just opened an issue for it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2420
It makes sense to me, and if thats what users want, go for it. Anyway its your site, so you can do things however you want, or experiment with different approaches. If your can handle such things better than join-lemmy.org, it can only benefit Lemmy as we will get more users.