How is communities undiscoverable? There are services for this https://lemmyverse.net/communities , of course it would be nice to have that more integrated in to Lemmy, but it is still there.

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

Okay, maybe "undiscoverable" is kind of the wrong word. I'm thinking about users who don't really understand how lemmy work and don't know that these tools are available.

During the initial "gold rush", I noticed a lot of duplicate communities being created on lemmy.world that already existed elsewhere (e.g. [email protected] for [email protected] ). These communities I guess just didn't appear during a search on lemmy.world (since it didn't know about it).

Honestly, it felt like if you made a community anywhere other than lemmy.world, a lemmy.world version would appear and outcompete it unless you linked it elsewhere or it had a dedicated instance.

Not saying that anyone did anything wrong, it's just people being unfamiliar with the platform.

[–] snaggen 3 points 1 year ago

Well, duplicate communities might also be on purpose, to lessen centralization. I see many that try to migrate away from lemmy.ml, and this community is one of them. I agree that it might be a bit confusing, but it is easily worked around by subscribing to both communities.