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I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance (www.reddit.com)

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

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This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats.

This is the root of re-centralization and it must be pulled out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will sort itself out as people get used to and understand the fediverse better. I think not having a good cross instance search for communities is part of the contributing factor to this confusion. At least it was for me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have had better luck with this one. Why does this work in a way that makes the users jump through hoops to discover what is out there?

https://browse.feddit.de

[–] dmtalon 1 points 1 year ago

I think (this means I'm guessing from what I have read/understand) that each instance can only see communities they're federated with. Meaning that if nobody on the server has subscribed to community X then that instance won't find that community in its community search section.

Could be totally wrong but when I look for communities on smaller instance they don't seem to find as many. And I read a couple posts on self hosting community that leads me to believe that's whats happening

So, if that's right you really need to search for communities from a big instance.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong!