Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don’t understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I’m in Lemmy.world, I can click “instances” and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.

And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I’m supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?

And finally, is there a search per community possibility?

Sorry, I’m still confused about these.

  • a new sad meOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Thanks for the answer. I find the lack of search capability surprising, but… I guess that it will come. As you said, Lemmy is still young.

    I’ve replied elsewhere about the searching-for-communities question. I think that I should have phrased my question better. In a sense, it’s a question about why the instances solve the issue.

    Keep asking, we will figure it all out :D

    Thanks!