I want to find communities, so is there a community dedicated to finding communities?

  • Altair@vlemmy.net
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    This seriously needs to integrated into lemmy already. Not being able to see the true member count/activity of all communities is a massive blow to discoverability and very anti-ux, and likely the biggest hurdle for newcomers.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yep, would be nice. No one expected the massive influx of users, though. This suddenly changed from something extremely niche to something a lot of users at least know about.

      IMO the biggest hurdle for newcomers is that everyone is going to lemmy.world and then it’s slow and everything and they think Lemmy is slow because they don’t understand how federation works (which is understandable, it’s the first time they’re seeing something like that).

      • Altair@vlemmy.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        That’s another thing. People need to stop recommending the massive servers and recommend smaller ones like vlemmy.net, lemmy.one or lemm.ee instead, at lest until lemmy’soptimized for user counts of this scale. Those servers have also been upgraded for the surge of users after all, and everything’s connected anyway.

        In fact, I think lemmy clients should go as far as to assign new users randomly to good general servers like these upon registration so they don’t even have to know about instances; would make the onboarding much better