I usually look at “Local” or “All”, but that’s still only what is published on or is federated by my instance. What effective ways of discovering new content across all of the Fediverse do you know?
Locking for rule 5.
There’s a pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Or the instance agnostic link !newcommunities@lemmy.world
my instance auto-subscribes to all external communities via a federating bot. this allows my servers ‘/all/new’ queue to be filled with shit my personal account is not subscribed to, and thats how i see new communities to subscribe to.
but thats my local mbin instance… not sure what lemmings do
Ill often go to topics that I already enjoy:
I think topics are only a thing on PieFed?
If I recall theres another service that uses something similar? Regardless its how I found a ton of cool stuff. And you don’t need a piefed account to look.
And you don’t need a piefed account to look.
Ah right, I forgot about that
Every Lemmy instance has a built-in search tool that can be used to search across instances (make sure the slider at the top is set to “All”, it usually defaults to “Local”). Browsing All for a while will show you a decent cross-section of the most active communities (just make sure to tighten your filters). And there are some 3rd party search tools like https://lemmyverse.net/ that do periodic trawls of posts and traffic.
I somehow missed there’s also an index for communities. Amazing, thanks!
it does not search across instances, it only searches its local database copies of instance data it has already receieved.
ie, if theres some server that no lemmy.world user has subscribed to, then no lemmy.world user could search that servers content without an exact link.
Yeah, I already use “All” but that’s still very limiting
exactly. it (your server) is limited to what the users of that server have subscribed to. but many places are using federating bots to fill this gap… no idea if your home base (lemmy.ml) is or not
