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We should implement this as whenever I wish to browse (for example) [email protected] I have to go to there, and whenever I wish to browse [email protected] I have to go there. Would it be possible to implement it in kbin/lemmy's code to make it easier to browse all?

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

The issue with that is that an user could be on a popular instance, like lemmy.world or a related one like lemdroid, and search for a community on it. They could find a ghost community that was created unofficially before the self-hosted one. In that case they could think this is it and there's no real discussion to be had on Lemmy.

It is also slightly weird because there's an incentive for developers to grab the [email protected] to ensure they can use the name and link it to the official instance. But that also leaves a ton of pretty much barren communities.

That's why I think keeping in sync would be a good feature, keep all communities in sync with the official one so that users aren't lost.

That said, this only works for official communities, and maybe(huge maybe) regional communities that have a self hosted instance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The practical solution for that, is to simply search the topic you are interested in plus lemmy on google. Chances are best that you will find the most active community.

Since reddit's search feature was completely unusable for the majority of its history, for me that is just "business as usual". Though it would be nice to have a more integrated solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Alright but what if there was an active community that moved to a self hosted one? Wouldn't that still show the older community first?