Discoverability in this context meaning the ability to more effectively find public communities/people of interest. Alongside improving this however, respecting people's decisions on whether and how they may be found, if at all.

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[–] Glowstick 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A global communities search that's integrated into all lemmy software. Meaning like i would go to a communities search bar and type "politics" and it'll show me all /politics communities on all instances, sorted by subscriber count.

And all communities should have a button right up at the front that's labeled "see similar communities", which would take you to that search result page.

EDIT

Apparently the search part of what i said already exists, but it's hard to find and requires techie skills to make it function the way i described. So the feature should be made easier to find and should default to an all-instances search instead of a local server search. And a "see similar communities" button should be added to automatically get to it.

https://lemmy.world/search?q=Politics&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Love the idea is a "similar communities" button but I don't know if I'd say searching communities is really that hard.