Support / questions about Lemmy.
My understanding is that if any user from your instance subscribes to a community, that community is searchable in the Communities list from your instance from then on... it doesn't have to be you specifically. Some user does have to find the community (likely via a search specifically for it) originally, though.
Discoverability definitely seems like a challenge.
I tried with a instance that's not in my Allowed list. If I search for a existing community on a different instance, it's not added to my community...
I think it's only if your instance is configured with an "Allowed Instances" list, so yeah, you need to manually add them.
If not, then any user can search for a community on any other instance from your instance as long as is not in the blocked list.
I see! I just need to keep my Allowed list empty :) Don't really understand the different visibility of comments yet. I can see your comments from my lemmy.one account. but they don't show up on my own instance. Bit hard to keep track of posts and comments, if I need a second account on a different instance to see replies ?
Your instance will only get NEW comments after the moment the first person on your instance subscribes to this community. You'll only get older comments if someone replies or votes on them
yes, so if someone from a different instance replies to my message, it never shows up on my instance... I only know of these comments because I have an account on lemmy.one (created that before I started by own instance) ??
I'm also thinking of setting up a server (would host a public Synapse instance and maybe Mastodon too), and thought about this same issue.
Perhaps a bot that just goes through a list of known instances and just subscribes to communities would do it? Might be a bit heavy though. Not sure how much load Lemmy federation puts on the server.
A user subscribes to a community, not the instance. I’ve emptied the Allowed list and now the All communities list is growing as users search for community-urls on other servers.
On browse.feddit.de you can find a list of all communities together, don’t know hoe they do that
Yes, you are correct. I was however talking about how to make it convenient for new users unfamiliar to the Lemmy system to find communities to subscribe to. The point was to get the built-in search to show as much communities as possible.
The current system is not convenient or clear for the average person at all. Not complaining or anything, but that's just a fact. I got started two days ago, and the number of "how to find communities" posts in that time is quite high. Took me the first day too.
agree, there is quite a learning curve. I still don't get why I can't see comments to my post on a different server. But when I log in on another server thats also reading from that community I see the comments there