Thanks for the tip, we'll update it to a working link.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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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.
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? Itβs 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
Use the search and select βfederatedβ βCommunitiesβ 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 itβs in their guides
What guides though, that's what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?
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?
Pinging @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] as well
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?
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 :)
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?
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.
Where does it link to a community browser (scraper)? I could not find it.
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
FYI we updated it to point to our support page copy of it, other stuff there too, bit it's a bit of a WIP π