An example, if there are like 10+ different communities for "technology", do I really have to subscribe to all of them just to get the same experience I would have gotten on /r/technology?

Is there a way to "clump" these communities together so I can just subscribe to one "multi-community" that houses the posts from all of them?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think my biggest frustration is feeling like I am missing communities based on my instance. I have 2 accounts on different instances, 1 I created a few weeks ago and 1 I created a few days ago. On my newer account, I couldn’t find half the communities I was looking for unless I dropped a direct link into the search (looking just for the name didn’t turn anything up). And then when I did finally find them, the subscriber number was different (like 1 community had 100+ subscribers on my first account, but the same community only showed like 2 or 3 subscribers on my second account). Anyway I’m sure user error plays a role in this, but it is not intuitive to me, just yet anyway.

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago

Yea that's pretty stupid. I don't see why information about new communities couldn't be propagated across instances.

Subscriber count is instance-specific I think, which does make some sense but then upvotes are apparently federated so idk

[–] Evono 1 points 1 year ago

You should be able to see all via this https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

Shit just works should have also a "communities" button at the top with a all button.