So, subscribing to an outside /c from one instance will make visible that specific community to the home instance’s total userbase, correct?
Yep.
But it only works in terms of fetching that specific /c, right? I.e., it doesn’t automatically pull the total list of /c’s from that other instance, if I understand correctly.
No, it doesn’t pull every other comm from the instance.
This doesn’t mean that the instance will subscribe to every comm. It will only know about their existence and show them in the comm list, so basically a builtin lemmyverse.net.
I don’t know if this is already a thing or planned in PieFed.
Sounds good, thanks!
Right now it does seem like PieFed-instance /c’s don’t show up too much in Lemmy, Mbin, etc instance searches for the reasons you’ve already covered.
Thank you, boss. Ultimately I’m hoping that there’s more of popular, general-FV search place in which PF communities can be discovered by non-PF users.
I’d like to see the PF side more discoverable, for fairly obvious lessons, eheh.
Thanks!
I don’t think Mbin and PieFed were search options as of my last-use attempt. That’s some good news.
That said, it doesn’t look like the query box does anything just yet in PF-mode. Perhaps it’s in progress? I poked around the GitHub a bit, but couldn’t find anything obvious. (couldn’t even find a change-log or equivalent, for that matter oO)
I think I’d make an offspin of this project, as the current project is centered around only Lemmy, I don’t think I’d be willing to build in global search as a thing in this project.
Relying on external tools is always going to create this kind of issues
Hell, yes.
It seems to me that while this might only be a ‘lurking’ issue for now, in the larger sense it’s a huge, honking issue for our beloved, imperfect Fediverse. That is-- the smaller the FV-entity, the greater the need to be easily discoverable by larger FV entities, particularly as the ‘little guy’ passes a certain threshold of longevity, quality content, good general behavior, etc.
I do wonder how much this issue is on peoples’ minds across the FV…
Piefed has multiple ways of pulling in comms an instance doesnt yet know about. The newest version for example pulls in comms that have been posted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Yep.
No, it doesn’t pull every other comm from the instance.
Lemmy v1.1.0 should be getting the ability to receive a minimal list of all the comms an instance has: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
This doesn’t mean that the instance will subscribe to every comm. It will only know about their existence and show them in the comm list, so basically a builtin lemmyverse.net.
I don’t know if this is already a thing or planned in PieFed.
Sounds good, thanks!
Right now it does seem like PieFed-instance /c’s don’t show up too much in Lemmy, Mbin, etc instance searches for the reasons you’ve already covered.
Also, various outside tool searches don’t seem to find PF stuff for other reasons, such as: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Not sure if there are alternative, FV-wide tools that can do a more inclusive job of such searches, but so far I don’t think I’ve found any. :S
https://piefed.social/communities
Thank you, boss. Ultimately I’m hoping that there’s more of popular, general-FV search place in which PF communities can be discovered by non-PF users.
I’d like to see the PF side more discoverable, for fairly obvious lessons, eheh.
You need to switch to the “Piefed explorer” on the top left corner.
Here’s a direct link: https://lemmyverse.net/piefed/communities
Thanks!
I don’t think Mbin and PieFed were search options as of my last-use attempt. That’s some good news.
That said, it doesn’t look like the query box does anything just yet in PF-mode. Perhaps it’s in progress? I poked around the GitHub a bit, but couldn’t find anything obvious. (couldn’t even find a change-log or equivalent, for that matter oO)
Yep. Seems like the implementation is not fully done yet. Might be a good idea to open a new issue in their github repo.
That’s probably not going to happen
https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/284
This kind of explore features should be built in the software the way Piefed does it with https://piefed.social/communities
Relying on external tools is always going to create this kind of issues
Oh, I realised just now that you’d commented further:
Hell, yes.
It seems to me that while this might only be a ‘lurking’ issue for now, in the larger sense it’s a huge, honking issue for our beloved, imperfect Fediverse. That is-- the smaller the FV-entity, the greater the need to be easily discoverable by larger FV entities, particularly as the ‘little guy’ passes a certain threshold of longevity, quality content, good general behavior, etc.
I do wonder how much this issue is on peoples’ minds across the FV…
Piefed has multiple ways of pulling in comms an instance doesnt yet know about. The newest version for example pulls in comms that have been posted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Awesome. Now is there any possibility of reciprocation across the FV?
Particularly the smaller the instance / server producing quality content?