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Forgive me if I'm confusing some terminology. Haven't been in the Fediverse long at all. I'm still having trouble finding specific communities on Lemmy. I found a Green Bay Packers instance called: [email protected] which is sadly not that active but what if I want to find other NFL teams within the same instance because it seems like it would skew towards more sports related content.

How can I search for other communities within fanaticus.social in the search bar? I've tried on browser and iOS (wefwef) with no results

Thanks for the help and apologies if this is a newbie question

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[–] livingina 3 points 1 year ago

I would use lemmyverse.net

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

When you search 'all' communities on your local instance, the search results are a combination of local communities as well as communities on federated instances that other users of your local instance have subscribed to. But, there might be communities on other instances that have no local subscribers, and therefore would never show up in search results.

Your options would be to use some kind of multi-instance community search tool like lemmyverse.net or, if you happen to know the name of the instance you are wanting to search on, you can just open a web browser, navigate to that instance, you don't even need to create a login there, and then search through their local communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Please also have a look at rule 6