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Feature to browse all communities (not just by search keyword) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by potterman28wxcv@lemmy.world to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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Hello,

First of all thank you so much to the developers of jerboa, the app is simple and responsive (coming from reddit it's a huge plus), and it just works!

One thing I am personally missing is the ability to easily discover communities. You can search by keyword and that works great, but I would rather have an exhaustive list of them all, especially as I am new here and I might be missing on some of them because I did not enter the right keywords.

The alternative i found is to search for each vowel 'a', 'e' etc.. because all communities names have at least a vowel, but it would be more practical to have an actual listing

What do you think?

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[–] flamingarms 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There already is a Lemmy Community Browser which contains a lot of the federated instances.

Also, you might be interested in Lemmy Directory.

Edit: sorry, didn't realise you meant browsing from within Jerboa. Nevertheless, maybe the links above can help you around for now :)

[–] Iballl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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:

[–] potterman28wxcv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😊

[–] Lewistrick@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] florge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is this possible to do though the app? I saw a regional instance list in another thread and wanted to join it, however whenever I type in Washington@lemmy.world nothing shows up. Do I need to add the myinstance/c/ ahead of it?

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

Doesn't https://browse.feddit.de/ work decently?
Or did you mean options within the app?

[–] potterman28wxcv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It does on PC but not within the app. Although I could just use the PC to discover new communities and subscribe to them