With kbin, for example, you can go to kbin.social/d/beehaw.org and view the entirety of Beehaw's communities within kbin itself. I know that you can subscribe to particular communities on other instances, but I'd like to be able to view all of kbin's domain from within Beehaw on one page. Just wondering if Lemmy has this same ability to do so, or if this is currently a unique feature for kbin?

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[–] JohannesOliver 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My suspicion is kbin is not actually listing every possible community either, just the ones it knows about through the same sort of indexing, where Lemmy does not have an interface to view all of the known communities by instance. This hampers discovery a bit, but also avoids confusion as there may be additional communities available that don’t show up in that list if someone else on your instance hasn’t subscribed to it.

Kbin is heavily centralized right now, so the main instance does know about a ton of stuff.