Folks that have been here awhile probably already know this, but may have forgotten and new folks may not know it, so a reminder that we build the All feed together:
These previous ways will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover.
With that in mind, for intrepid explorers here, I’d highly recommend looking for communities via Lemmyverse and joining them from here to make the All feed more varied than just Lemmy.World’s communities.
I post this as I was browsing through All the other day and noticed it looked like I may as well have remained browsing Local for how few remote communities I was seeing. And that’s not for a lack of interesting communities on other instances either!
Although...
…That’s not to say it might not also be due to a lack of activity in them, but that can be helped by looking for communities first before making them locally, I think!
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Excellent advice.
I have been doing exactly this for the last three days! The site can be slow to respond, so one has to be a bit patient at times.
Thanks for that link OP. This bit answered a question I didn’t know I had:
You can find more communities by browsing different Lemmy instances, or using the Lemmy Community Browser. When you found a community that you want to follow, enter its URL (e.g. https://feddit.de/c/main) or the identifier (e.g. !main) into the search field of your own Lemmy instance. Lemmy will then fetch the community from its original instance, and allow you to interact with it. The same method also works to fetch users, posts or comments from other instances.
I’m going to assume this works similarly on kbin.
Is it necessary to join them though? Or is it enough to, e.g., reply once, or even just search from within your instance?Thanks for the FYI! I didn’t know it worked like that. How much influence does a single person have over what appears in the All feed? Let’s suppose I find an obscure community and subscribe, and I’m the first person from Lemmy.World to do so. Do posts from that community immediately start showing up in everyone’s All feeds? Or does it take a small army of us subscribing to the same community to make it really show up?
As far as I’m aware, it only takes one person subscribing & making the instance aware of the community to start its posts showing up in the All feed. What then determines how much it shows up in the All feed is just how active the community is, if I’m not mistaken.
Doesn’t always work tho. Opening https://kbin.social/m/android@lemdro.id for examples gives me a 404.
I’m not too familiar with Kbin, but does it work similarly in that if nobody there has searched for that community, it may not show up to subscribe to?
In other words, if you search its url: https://lemdro.id/c/android on Kbin, does it show up as a magazine to subscribe to/follow?
@ElectroVagrant Yes it works like that on kbin, at least to an extend. I am not sure when exactly it gets available tho. Besides that, as other people said, there seems to be a federation bug at the moment which seems to cause this problem.
… and don’t forget kbin.social
Has kbin/Lemmy federation been fixed? I’ve looked at a few kbin communities from several different Lemmy instances, and it looks like the last available posts are from around a week ago.
Kbin has been a little patchy in terms of federation, some days it’s absolutely fine and then others there seem to be big delays. That said I’m subbed to tons of magazines and have been interacting with them over the last couple hours, so seems to be ok at the moment.
For a lot of topics I find the magazine version(s) are a lot less active than the related Lemmy communities, so the ones you’re looking at might just genuinely not have recent posts.
