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I'm new and learning. Also how do you search a community for what's been posted?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On the main page of your instance, at the top, you'll see a link that says 'communities'. Click that.

Of course, this will only get you the communities on that particular instance. If you want a list of all communities on Lemmy go to https://browse.feddit.de or https://lemmyverse.net

[–] danisth 3 points 1 year ago

You should be able to select β€œall” from the communities tab to view comms from other instances. The search works across instances too.

[–] AlexanderTheGreat 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a "Communities" button at the top of the page (or in the top menu on mobile) that shows all communities on your current instance.

I'm not sure for your search question. It looks like they tried to implement that function in the general search tool (magnifier icon at the top/menu), but filtering by a specific community doesn't seem to work for me. There are still some bugs to work out on the site in general.

[–] AlexanderTheGreat 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the response :)

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can do the instance name with /communities. For example https://lemmy.ml/communities

You can also try https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] AlexanderTheGreat 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! Exactly what I'm looking for :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ask your non open-ended questions on [email protected] instead! :)

I'm not sure I understand. But the search option in the top right is useful for almost everything. If you're looking for communities you can use browse.feddit.de and paste them into the search to sub to them. You can reply if you have any issues

[–] andresil 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's not quite how all of this works yet AFAIK. This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but he's a directory of migrated Reddit communities: https://sub.rehab/

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to see all the communities across instances, you can try https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] AlexanderTheGreat 1 points 1 year ago

Not what I wanted, but very useful to have. Thanks!

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

I'm new as well, you can search by clicking the magnifying glass at the top right of your screen, next to the notifications button and your username. I'd insert an image here, but the new lemmy update has broken image uploading.

[–] AlexanderTheGreat 1 points 1 year ago

Is that just for searching communities or can you search for topics inside communities as well?