I’ve introduced two of my friends (not into tech) to Lemmy. Since they’re not into tech this is their first web forum.

I’ve explained the federation thru the usual email metaphore and that’s ok, but to lookup for communities is not quite there on client side.

Let me explain.
He wanted to see all the communities on an instance because that instance is in his native language but he’s registered on another instance. So to see all those communities you must go on instance.domain/communities, copy the name of the community you are interessed in and paste it inside the app/web client to look it up.

And to see all the communities all over the fediverse you must use lemmyverse.net which is a cool site, but still you got to copy paste back and forth to the app.

This could be implementend inside app itself by listing all communities and add ability to filter by things like instance.

Obviously open to discussion about the issue itself and how that could be improved.

Feel free to tag apps/clients devs to ear their opinion too.

  • WTree
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    166 months ago

    Thunder app has ability that can view all community that has federated with your instance.

    • MentalEdge
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      6 months ago

      Latest version also has an instance explorer, that lets you open other instances in that same “view all” view.

      Select “instances” in search, or long press a post from another instance>instance>visit instance.

      @MrSoup@lemmy.zip