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How do you discover communities to subscribe to? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I usually look at "Local" or "All", but that's still only what is published on or is federated by my instance. What effective ways of discovering new content across all of the Fediverse do you know?

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[–] 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Every Lemmy instance has a built-in search tool that can be used to search across instances (make sure the slider at the top is set to "All", it usually defaults to "Local"). Browsing All for a while will show you a decent cross-section of the most active communities (just make sure to tighten your filters). And there are some 3rd party search tools like https://lemmyverse.net/ that do periodic trawls of posts and traffic.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    it does not search across instances, it only searches its local database copies of instance data it has already receieved.

    ie, if theres some server that no lemmy.world user has subscribed to, then no lemmy.world user could search that servers content without an exact link.

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