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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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[โ€“] flamingarms@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[โ€“] SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl 0 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 ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] Lewistrick@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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

[โ€“] feduser934@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Copy and pasting the name in my instances search bar works for me.

[โ€“] florge@lemmy.world 0 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.

[โ€“] 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?