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Any way of finding popular communities across servers? (posta.no)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd love to find interesting things to subscribe to.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Related question: How to join a community once you found it? Asking specifically for people coming from a tiny instance.

For example, I know that https://beehaw.org/c/news is a thing. But when I try to find it, I get 'No Results'. How do I force my instance to discover [email protected]? I tried adding a bang to both strings to no avail.

Same issue with a couple other communities I found but cannot find from my home instance, which is federated to all but https://lemmygrad.ml/.

Edit: Using this guide https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/ I was able to subscribe to a few of my pending list, using the manual method:

To view 'https://lemmy.ml/c/cryptography' on 'lemmy.ca', the URL is 'https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]'

I need to manually construct these URLs, visit them, and then I can subscribe. I strongly hope this is just for a short time due to reddit migration server load.