The link to https://browse.feddit.de/ is dead and should be updated to https://lemmyverse.net/communities.
Personally i think it would even make sense to link this from the main site sidebar. Not because it is a problem finding communities on other instances from within world, at least this should be the best instance to be able to, but as a function of being a “role model” for other instances.
FYI we updated it to point to our support page copy of it, other stuff there too, bit it’s a bit of a WIP 💓
Nice!
It would also be good to add a link to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, or if some similar community exists on lemmy.world (but I don’t see / haven’t heard of such), so that new users have a place to check for things that are constantly evolving and changing as the Fediverse progresses.
Yeah that would be a good idea maybe. Pretty dead community though.
discuss.online also features only the dead link in the “starting guide” btw.
Iwas going through instances and it is actually staggering. This is what i have collected so far:
Best practice (Link from main sidebar)
lemmy.ca (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
mander.xyz (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
aussie.zone (links to dead browse.feddit.de link only)Tolerable practice (Link from “starting guide”)
lemm.ee (dead browse.feddit.de link but also lemmyverse)
lemmy.world (dead browse.feddit.de link)
sh.itjust.works (copy of world’s guide so same problem)
discuss.online (dead browse.feddit.de link)
jlai.lu (hides it really well on a link to an external website which only links to dead browse.feddit.de link)Intolerable anti-fedi practice :) (no findable mention of community browsers)
lemmy.zip
slrpnk.net
lemmy.ml
sopuli.xyz
programming.dev
midwest.social
feddit.it
feddit.org
feddit.dk
feddit.nu
feddit.uk
feddit.nl
fedia.io
lemmy.blahaj.zone
lemmy.dbzer0.comI find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It’s not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.
jlai.lu (hides it really well on a link to an external website which only links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
What do you mean? This is the guide linked in the sidebar: https://jlai.lu/post/623268
Where did you see any mention to browse.feddit.de?
Where does it link to a community browser (scraper)? I could not find it.
My question was more about where you found the dead link to browse.feddit.de you mentioned in your comment
The link to lemmyverse is in this post: https://jlai.lu/post/541698
Pretty dead community though.
To be fair, it’s acting more as a collection of useful posts than anything else. It makes sense that it’s not that active
I find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It’s not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.
- Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter
- Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides
Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter
This only finds communities that someone on that instance already subscribed to. Absolutely not feasble for small instances and niche topics.
Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides
What guides though, that’s what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?
Ah, I see. There could be indeed some improvement on that side, but I guess admins just assume that their users know about Lemmyverse because they got pointed to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca when they joined like in this kind of comments https://lemmy.world/comment/11995882
@Emperor@feddit.uk, @poVoq@slrpnk.net what do you think? Do you think instances should add links to starting guides in their sidebars?
Pinging @SorteKanin@feddit.dk, @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone and @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well
I have a getting started guide I wrote a long time ago, but it’s probably a bit of old now. Do we have any decent recent guide?
I’m not sure about “should” but it is well worth flagging the issue up with Instance Admins who may have overlooked this and are happy to rectify the issue.
Thanks for the tip, we’ll update it to a working link.
