do any off the Lemmy or kbin apps provide a way to browse instances other than your own? kind of like filtering for “local” posts but local to another federated instance.
I’ve subscribed to communities from other instances once I find ones I like. but the only way I can “find” them it’s if I see an interesting post when I filter for “all” posts - what some other site might refer to as a post making it to the front page
I guess I could hunt from a web browser to do that, but I’d rather not have to switch between apps to do that
This is a list of newly created communities. It refreshes daily. Maybe helpful for finding niche communities: https://lemmyfind.quex.cc/
There is also https://browse.feddit.de/.
thanks - and for sure, that’s an option. just requires me to leave my app and go to a browser.
Yeah it’s just something I came up with to find stuff. I’m not running an app, only browser.
oh crap, I didn’t realize that’s a site you set up yourself. I bow more deeply in your direction with gratitude for your contribution 🙏
No worries. It just a bit of python because I had similar difficulties finding stuff. A lot of the newly created stuff on the list is noise or people testing their own unstances, but there are a few specialized communities on small instances that show up.
Liftoff supports this
BINGO! that’s exactly whati was looking for!
THANK YOU!
Glad I could help :)
I feel like at this stage each app has one special thing they do well that sets them apart.
If your using iOS Memmy does this
sadly, I’m in Android. good to know that functionally is out there though. maybe other apps can do it too
Which app(s) are you using? I don’t have an answer to your question, but I’m interested in hearing which apps are good on Android. I alternate between several apps (Voyager, Liftoff, Connect, Thunder) because I frequently get freezing, and I’m not sure if it’s something with my phone and tablet, something with the apps, or something with the Lemmy servers I’m accessing.
so, I’ve got a bunch I’m cycling through including thunder, connect, jeroba, lemmontif and liftoff.
for no great reason I could explain, I find myself using thunder most often. but, with the apps and the platform getting updates so frequently, I don’t see myself selling down to one app and time soon
When I was using android love it btw. Boost was a old Reddit client they are active porting it to work with Lemmy would check that out.
just saw that about boost today - very excited to see that app! I was a Relay for Reddit person but that’s not to say it was the best, just they one I was used to using
That’d be useful for sure
Right!? it opens up a whole other level of exploration of the fediverse. I could almost imagine going down a rabbit hole of some more obscure instance with communities that wouldn’t normally make it to the front page (BTW - what do we call the front page in the fediverse?)
I think having only one “local” is part of the design of the Fediverse. I also think this is one of the reasons some people have accounts on more than one instance, though this is far from a perfect solution.
