Sites to Discover Lemmy/Fediverse Communities, Instances and Stats

bandanawearingbanana, 11 months ago

I don’t really understand how to subscribe to an instance that is hosted on a different server?

Like say I want to subscribe to this instance feddit.de/c/600euro how would I go on about not just being able to see it but have it in my feed too?

sixfold, 11 months ago

There is one more step once you found an community you’d like to subscribe to. Take the link to the community (something like lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah ) and copy it into your home instance’s (the one you’ve made an account on) search page. for me it looks like this:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/72cd4add-9aa3-4710-b93a-c94f38d0a98f.png

Sometimes, it will say “No Results.” Just wait a view seconds, and maybe try to refresh. The server it mostly likely retrieving some posts and comments for the first time. Eventually, it will show up, click the result, and you’ll be directed to something like lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected] (with your home instance’s domain in place of mine) and you can subscribe from there.

gnomeroller, 1 year ago

Is there a way to determine if an instance is defederated? I’m not sure I totally get it yet.

I keep searching for !dndnext but it won’t appear in communities and I can’t tell if its because they are still setting up their instance, FMHY has blocked them, or they have blocked us.

zinklog, 1 year ago

Here’s that community: lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected]

to check if we have deferated someone, just check here: lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances

to check if we have been deferated, check here: fba.ryona.agency

eyy, 1 year ago

there is also sub.rehab which lists replacements for subreddits.

zinklog, 1 year ago

Thanks this is very nice

leftierthanthou, 1 year ago

FediSearch for searching the fediverse in various search engines. It’s a bit of a MacGyver solution but can be useful.

zinklog, 1 year ago

Pretty nice I’ll add it to the list thanks!

ContentSpy, 1 year ago

Thank you for the hard work!

TWeaK, 1 year ago

This website is great for looking at defederation: fba.ryona.agency

Mind you, it’s not quite perfect. Some instances aren’t on there yet - if you compare it with Lemmymap you’ll see that both are missing some things.

zinklog, 1 year ago

Thanks that’s a pretty neat site to check defederation

Martineski, 1 year ago

Holy hell!! There’s a mastodon instance with 20342 defederations LMFAO. At this point it would be just easier to whitelist federations they like.

Edit: turns out it’s a meme instance run by one person lol

Mintyytea, 1 year ago

The only thing that'd be cool is if these community browsers could add the search for other communities as well, like for the kbin aggregator's communities. There's one called RedditMigration (https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration or @RedditMigration) that has more than 250 posts, and it's started on kbin.social. It would be cool to be able to search more easily other communities so that it's easier to find the content on the fediverse.

Kbin can improve its community search too but I am finding it easier to know about other communities not on kbin on its search. Whereas, on lemmy, maybe it's because I'm on a lower population instance, but it's very hard to find a community if it's not on lemmy, and I didn't already just know about it from the kbin account

TWeaK, 1 year ago

Communities is definitely limited. You can’t sort them, you can’t filter them (particularly by instance when looking at All).

The best way to discover new comms seems to be using Lemmyverse, apparently you can set it to your own instance so that links come up in your instance, where you’re logged in and can subscribe.

MichelCampillo, 1 year ago

Great, thank you 🤠

anonynorbi, 1 year ago

Thank you!