I'd like to add to this request that we allow searches by instance, or be able to view all communities within a particular instance. I sometimes hear about a new instance and want to see all the communities within it. Or I'm curious what new communities lemmy.ml might have and want to quickly view all their instances. Initially I tried to search "@lemmy.ml", hoping that would work, but alas it did not. Just a thougt that feels related to this one!
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I think that is the main issue: search does not search the tag/url properly. If I enter the exact tag into the search engine (something like !rust@lemmy.ml), then it should be able to pull up the community easily. As of right now, there are some communities I have not been able to join even though I know the tag/url
generally being able to search for communities across instances would be nice
There is a "3rd party" tool available on the Feddit.de instance, called browse.feddit.de. It's basically a full list of all communities on all instances. There you can also see what instance federates with other instances.
It's not available in the app unfortunately, but you can at least somewhat discover what communities are available that way.
I hope this helps 😊
Is there an easy way to subscribe to a community outside of my instance once I found one on browse.feddit.de, preferably on my phone?
Edit: replaced sub with community
I think if someone else in your instance has subscribed to a community on that other instance, then you should be able to search up your desired community in the app itself. Otherwise the url needs to be something like myinstance/c/newcommunity@otherinstance, that will let you browse to the community from within your instance and then you can subscribe.
I might have misunderstood you (or maybe it's different on PC), but there's a list of all Lemmy communities available already: click on the Communities word at the top of the page:
I was talking of the app Jerboa, not the Web browser (i assume that's the Web browser you are showing). But yes I could use the Web browser for this
No worries, but I believe they're referring to the jerboa app specifically. As far as I can find there isn't a way in the app.
I don't think the Communities list (as mentioned by @Iballl) exists on Jerboa, I can't see it anyway. The only real option on the app for now is to just browse All and join whatever takes your fancy. Though the browser version on mobile is quite good too and you can access it there
A full "exhaustive" list would never be able to get every community on every instance, due to the nature of federation and how they propagate to each other. I'm sure that Search will eventually see most instance/comms, as they have to be known to each other which will come with time (probably not long).
Doesn't https://browse.feddit.de/ work decently?
Or did you mean options within the app?
It does on PC but not within the app. Although I could just use the PC to discover new communities and subscribe to them