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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Thanks for the feedback! I think if your main goal is to just search for communities by name, then it’s best to use: https://browse.feddit.de/.
I find lemmy.directory the most helpful in browsing all posts across the lemmyverse in a single feed (via the “All” filter).
Searching for new communities may be able to be made more universal, but automatically pulling in those feeds (subscribing) is probably not a good general idea. See here for more info on that: https://lemmy.ml/comment/476925
how does your directory (or the search from feddit.de for that matter) find brand new communities?
suppose I create a community on sdf.org called 'HooverMaxExtractPressureProModel60' for discussion on a specific vacuum cleaner
how will any 3rd party scraper/search tool know of its existence so it can be indexed?
I was thinking each instance could keep of a list of all their own communities and share that list with other known instances in some way as a way to 'spread the word' on what is available
I think that would be possible to do to help with searching for new communities. Although for now I’m not sure there’s too much difference between it existing on each instance vs on https://browse.feddit.de/. Other than ease of use of staying on one website I guess.
yeah for me its mainly laziness so I don't have to use an external site to search
but new users who may not be aware of external directories could have trouble finding niche communities if no one from their instance has subscribed yet
just a user experience thing I was thinking about