Right now, the search capabilities we have for findings magazines aren’t great, and aren’t usually going to show communities on similar topics across instances. If people make lists of related communities and posted them here, I think it would help people find communities they are searching for.
I’d say this is exactly what we need actually. The search function is a bit lackluster but this is an excellent idea as a stop gap while more important features are at the front of the queue.
Lists would be great but (forgive if this is a stupid question, I’m one of the émigrés who literally just got here and don’t know what I’m doing) how do you subscribe to other instances/communities/whatever if you don’t find them via the platform you signed up on? I found a bunch of other places I’d like in my feed but I can’t figure out how to subscribe to them without being logged in on each respective platform, which defeats the point.
Not a stupid question at all - the way you do it isn’t intuitive, and I hope gets made easier with further software developments. In the search bar near your username at the upper right enter, communityname@instancename, for ex. newcommunities@lemmy.world, and if it’s working right the version of the community that’s synced to kbin will show up. Catch is that right now it randomly seems to glitch, and fail or return nothing, so if doesn’t work at first you’ll just have to try again later. I’m sure the people running the site are aware of the issue and trying to get it sorted out, for now it’s one of the things to put up with a platform that basically started last month.
For example, here is one I just made that gathers general music communities across instances: music groups
