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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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[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Lemmy is way better than Mastodon for content discovery, which is one of the biggest reasons I wish that lemmy supported "self-posts", i.e. posting to your own timeline.

being able to cross-post "mastodon-like content" directly on lemmy would really help content discovery, make attributions simpler, and make lemmy the undisputed champion of the fediverse!

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went from thinking "Why on earth would you want self posts?" to "Wow, how does lemmy not already have self posts, they would be a killer feature" as I read your post :)

[–] poVoq 4 points 2 years ago

You might want to look into kbin then. It includes both.