Instead of just searching the specific name of a sub what if I want to see every sub that’s contained within an instance such as lemmy.world for example no I’m not part of lemmy.world but as part of the instance I’m a part of I can see every sub under it in a neat list can you only do that if you’re part of the instance?

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    Edit: for a better method, see this comment below

    You would need to navigate to that instance on desktop

    For example, as others have said:

    You can’t see it from your instance because not every community will be pulled. A community only starts federating to your instance after someone on your instance subscribes to it

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        An easier way is to use http://lemmyverse.net/communities

        Set your home instance using the home icon on the right

        Select only the target instance with the instance filter

        Now you can see only the target instance communities, and clicking on them will open them on your home instance

      • uservoid1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Also, on most instances NSFW communities are listed only if you are logged in and enable such content on your profile.

        • ramble81@lemm.ee
          1·
          3 months ago

          So is there a way to see those? A good example is lemming.online, which you can’t sign up for. The only alternative I’ve found is browse by new and just wait to see what communities pop up.

      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 months ago

        Lemmy isn’t focused on everyone seeing everything but on keeping corporate interests and power tripping admins out. The idea is to encourage as many people as possible to run their own instance of Lemmy both to share the infrastructure costs and limit the power each instance holds. Keeping hosting costs down is why instances don’t pull from communities nobody is subscribed to.

          • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
            3·
            3 months ago

            So, from what I can tell anyways, it does seem like the original answer is what you’re looking for. Each instance has a list of its own communities that you can see. You can also see a list of other instances that are federated to an instance by browsing to /instances (ex. https://lemmy.ca/instances shows all the instances lemmy.ca is federated with as well as which ones are blocked). As far as I know, there is no way to see a list of all communities from all federated instances. There are some external sites that seem to have these sorts of lists like https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    • Lost_My_Mind@piefed.social
      1·
      3 months ago

      A community only starts federating to your instance after someone on your instance subscribes to it

      That sounds like a really bad way to do this.

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        If not, someone could just set up a rogue instance, create fake communities on it, then start pushing a million pictures per minute to every Lemmy instance, exhausting their resources