here are two sites I have been linked recently:
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
48 points (100.0% liked)
Lemmy
496 readers
5 users here now
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
The above are great ways to find communities l, and if you struggle to subscribe once finding one (it can sometimes be surprisingly confusing), check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/39208.
The first one shouldn't be used as a directory. The second one, can be used.
The reason the first one can't, is because it is just the search directory of one instance. Each instance knows/shows a community only AFTER some user has indexed it manually by putting the full url of that federated community in the search bar and submitted it. Only after this, does lemmy.directory will be able to show it.
The admin from lemmy.directory actually stated that his instance tries to fetch all communities from everywhere in order to build a directory, it's not meant as an actual, general instance.
yeah here was the post they linked me which explains the instance
Oh, ok, I didn't know that this was the intended usage of that particular instance. Good to know.
Ok I have a dumb question. Is Technology@beehaw.org supposed to have the same content as technology@lemmy.ml? Or are those two similarly names, but separate things with potentially differnt content?
They're different communities with the same name, because community names don't have to be unique between different instances. I get that subscribing to two different communities with the same theme is annoying when you could save time and subscribe to one, but having backup communities is a blessing when the instance shuts down or mods start power tripping. A "multireddit" feature that can combine multiple communities into one subscription feed would keep subscribing convenient without forcing only one community to exist per topic.
they are different communities with different content
this is one of the most confusing things about lemmy
I'm actually subscribed to both of these and will see if they both survive or if one of them becomes the 'main' tech community
They're supposed to have the same content, but may have different moderation.
A great example - /r/gaming vs. /r/games on Reddit (or /r/truegaming). All basically the same thing, but they have different moderation styles.
Thanks, this is an analogy I realized last night after posting my question. Makes a lot of sense when out like that.
This is the biggest confusion and obstacle to me.
Why is https://[your lemmy instance]/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 different for every instance? https://lemmy.ml/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 shows asklemmy at 2.09k users per month, but https://lemmy.directory/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 shows asklemmy@lemmy.ml at 1.51k users per month.
Here, although if/once your instance has fetched enough communities, you'll be able to see them by selecting 'All' in 'Communities'.
Yes, but the all tab won't update. Not until at least one user goes looking for it. So you'll miss out on niche and new communities.
True, it's not a good method for small communities, especially if you are in a smaller instance. It's enough tho for popular communities.
I just clicked "Communities" at the top of the page, then selected "All" instead of "Local"... seemed to show everything sorted by number of subscribed users... in fact I literally JUST did this and that's why I'm on this community right now.
On my instance i can go to search and filter by 'communities' and click all instead of local and i see a lot, but it might depened on how many instances your instance is linked with
check this other post too
This doesn't pertain to your comment in particular, but it's the first time I've realized a pretty significant issue with lemmy. I'm browsing from kbin, but when I click your link, it loads the page on your instance rather than loading the content in my instance.
This is something we need to figure out, it shouldn't be too complicated for instances to rewrite links and open the content "locally". If I want to interact with the post you linked, I have to copy it, paste it into my instance's search bar, find the same post, and then open it.
That's a pretty far cry from the convenience of just clicking a link.
This is an issue on Mastodon as well, and the way it was solved there was by adding a browser extension which did the rewriting.
It was something about the fact that those are completely different websites that can't talk to each other, I think.
yeah. no kidding. i have another post out there decrying the same thing. and the maddening behaviour is maddeningly different between the web ui and apps. there are edges like this in mastodon but they don't seem as obvious or constant
You're not wrong, but kbin is early beta at this point. Personally I prefer it compared to the lemmy instances that I've visited, but it's still far from "done."