I’d love to find interesting things to subscribe to.
Why is https://[your lemmy instance]/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 different for every instance? https://lemmy.ml/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 shows asklemmy at 2.09k users per month, but https://lemmy.directory/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 shows [email protected] at 1.51k users per month.
Feddit has a list of popular communities.
The Lemmy Community Browser: https://browse.feddit.de/
I just clicked “Communities” at the top of the page, then selected “All” instead of “Local”… seemed to show everything sorted by number of subscribed users… in fact I literally JUST did this and that’s why I’m on this community right now.
here are two sites I have been linked recently:
The first one shouldn’t be used as a directory. The second one, can be used.
The reason the first one can’t, is because it is just the search directory of one instance. Each instance knows/shows a community only AFTER some user has indexed it manually by putting the full url of that federated community in the search bar and submitted it. Only after this, does
lemmy.directorywill be able to show it.The admin from lemmy.directory actually stated that his instance tries to fetch all communities from everywhere in order to build a directory, it’s not meant as an actual, general instance.
Oh, ok, I didn’t know that this was the intended usage of that particular instance. Good to know.
yeah here was the post they linked me which explains the instance
