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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Pretty dead community though.

To be fair, it’s acting more as a collection of useful posts than anything else. It makes sense that it’s not that active

I find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It’s not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.

Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter
Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides

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AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter

This only finds communities that someone on that instance already subscribed to. Absolutely not feasble for small instances and niche topics.

Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides

What guides though, that’s what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?

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- Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah, I see. There could be indeed some improvement on that side, but I guess admins just assume that their users know about Lemmyverse because they got pointed to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca when they joined like in this kind of comments lemmy.world/comment/11995882
  
  @Emperor@feddit.uk, @poVoq@slrpnk.net what do you think? Do you think instances should add links to starting guides in their sidebars?
  
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  - Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m not sure about “should” but it is well worth flagging the issue up with Instance Admins who may have overlooked this and are happy to rectify the issue.
    
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  - AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not starting guides, like jlai.lu it’s there but some links deep hidden. This is such an obvious user experience problem that this - in my opinion - needs to be featured prominently in the main sidebar. Almost everywhere you have to dig deep to even understand that you cannot find all the communities hosted on other instances, unless you use these tools, or have a huge instance like world so basically everything is subscribed to by somebody.
    
    That’s why mander.xyz, lemmy.ca and aussie.zone get my gold award :)
    
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pinging @SorteKanin@feddit.dk, @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone and @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well
    
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    db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have a getting started guide I wrote a long time ago, but it’s probably a bit of old now. Do we have any decent recent guide?
    
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