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Starting guide needs update (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The link to https://browse.feddit.de/ is dead and should be updated to https://lemmyverse.net/communities.

Personally i think it would even make sense to link this from the main site sidebar. Not because it is a problem finding communities on other instances from within world, at least this should be the best instance to be able to, but as a function of being a "role model" for other instances.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah that would be a good idea maybe. Pretty dead community though.

discuss.online also features only the dead link in the "starting guide" btw.

Iwas going through instances and it is actually staggering. This is what i have collected so far:

Best practice (Link from main sidebar)

lemmy.ca (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
mander.xyz (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
aussie.zone (links to dead browse.feddit.de link only)

Tolerable practice (Link from "starting guide")

lemm.ee (dead browse.feddit.de link but also lemmyverse)
lemmy.world (dead browse.feddit.de link)
sh.itjust.works (copy of world's guide so same problem)
discuss.online (dead browse.feddit.de link)
jlai.lu (bravo! :) *edited

Intolerable anti-fedi practice :) (no findable mention of community browsers)

lemmy.zip
slrpnk.net
lemmy.ml
sopuli.xyz
programming.dev
midwest.social
feddit.it
feddit.org
feddit.dk
feddit.nu
feddit.uk
feddit.nl
fedia.io
lemmy.blahaj.zone
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It's not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pretty dead community though.

To be fair, it's acting more as a collection of useful posts than anything else. It makes sense that it's not that active

I find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It’s not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.

  • Use the search and select "federated" "Communities" filter
  • Know about the Lemmyverse because it's in their guides
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter

This only finds communities that someone on that instance already subscribed to. Absolutely not feasble for small instances and niche topics.

Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides

What guides though, that's what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah, I see. There could be indeed some improvement on that side, but I guess admins just assume that their users know about Lemmyverse because they got pointed to [email protected] when they joined like in this kind of comments https://lemmy.world/comment/11995882

@[email protected], @[email protected] what do you think? Do you think instances should add links to starting guides in their sidebars?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have a getting started guide I wrote a long time ago, but it's probably a bit of old now. Do we have any decent recent guide?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not starting guides, like jlai.lu it's there but some links deep hidden. This is such an obvious user experience problem that this - in my opinion - needs to be featured prominently in the main sidebar. Almost everywhere you have to dig deep to even understand that you cannot find all the communities hosted on other instances, unless you use these tools, or have a huge instance like world so basically everything is subscribed to by somebody.

That's why mander.xyz, lemmy.ca and aussie.zone get my gold award :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

jlai.lu (hides it really well on a link to an external website which only links to dead browse.feddit.de link)

What do you mean? This is the guide linked in the sidebar: https://jlai.lu/post/623268

Where did you see any mention to browse.feddit.de?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was lamenting that instances don't link to community browsers / crawlers.

The link you sent has a link to this post, https://jlai.lu/post/541698, which has links in the Guides (en Anglais) section to external sites, world's getting started guide and some other, both linking to the dead browse.feddit.de link. Really hard to find, got to be really dedicated i guess :) And now the link is even dead, haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where does it link to a community browser (scraper)? I could not find it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My question was more about where you found the dead link to browse.feddit.de you mentioned in your comment

The link to lemmyverse is in this post: https://jlai.lu/post/541698

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, i have missed that. Sorry! Updated my comment.