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What is the intended method of content discovery? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm running on a personal lemmy instance, and I've been able to simply re-subscribe to the communities that I was subscribed to on my previous lemmy.ml account.

But what if I didn't have that? How would I discover those communities?

On the micro blogging fediverse, I can use relays, follow other peoples boosts, or join gup.pe groups etc for content discovery and to give me federated content in general on which to do content discovery.

What does that look like in the lemmyverse niche of the fediverse? How does a small single person instance find new content? How do they get richer content search options etc? Right now, I'm just using search on lemmy.ml for that, but that's a work around, not a solution

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[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah you're right about groups/communities not showing up in search or the communities view. That's unfortunate that they don't all federate upon discovery of the instance. I kinda assumed discovery of the instance was discovery of all communities.