tl:dr at the end.
I am one of the many people that were active in Reddit but I am also one of the ones that is going to delete their Reddit account on the 12th of June and move to Lemmy(Fediverse) full time.
I have encountered a specific issue though which I am not sure how to solve.
I wanted to create the equivalent community of /r/greece here, but I can see that the /c/greece is already existent but moderated by a user that is now banned, so that community is in limbo. People recommended 2 things:
- Request the community in !community_requests@lemmy.ml
- Create a new
/c/greececommunity in another instance.
I have encountered an issue with both of these solutions.
For the 1st solution, I created a request post 2 days ago which went unanswered(either accepted/declined) while other posts after and before mine, have been answered/resolved. I can understand there has been an increase in users and Dessalines can’t administrate/moderate everything on their own but I can see that there are multiple Admins in lemmy.ml and I believe they should be doing something or step down and appoint other people there that want to do it. I have since, recreated the same request post in hopes that I can get the community and bring it to fruition.
For the 2nd solution, I had created the /c/greece community in @lemmy.world but the problem is, that by going there I cannot find any community using the search functionality. I have 2 windows open, one logged into lemmy.ml and one in lemmy.world and when searching the same term, lemmy.world brings massively fewer results for communities so even if I wanted to use my account on lemmy.world I would have to use another instance to even FIND new communities. I am not sure why the reduced number of results but I guess there is an admin setting there that allows for federation with fewer instances.
TL:DR Why is the searching for communities so vastly different between instances and how can users overcome it to discover new communities?
Remote communities are only indexed/listed on an instance when it was fetched before (i.e. enter the URL to the community in the search bar). Until then the server does not know about the existence of a community.
A possible solution to this are third pary applications that crawl and index all possible instances. One such an application is https://browse.feddit.de
How does one fetch a remote community?
While using anonymous mode on Jerboa I could see liminalspaces@lemmy.ml, now I just created an account and can’t find liminalspaces anymore. That’s because nobody on sh.itjust.works fetched the community yet, right?
