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?
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:
- https://lemmy.ca/communities
- https://lemmy.world/communities
- https://mander.xyz/communities
- https://slrpnk.net/communities
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
It is possible using lemmyverse.net, I added a comment below
Thanks! That’s much easier
That’s… Tedious
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
Also, on most instances NSFW communities are listed only if you are logged in and enable such content on your profile.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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
Tesseract lets you browse the communities on remote instance. AFAIK, that’s one of few Lemmy frontends that offer that feature. Wish some other frontends would steal that feature from me.
Since the requests it uses to fetch communities from the remote instances are unauthenticated, it won’t show you any that are marked NSFW.
Since the requests it uses to fetch communities from the remote instances are unauthenticated, it won’t show you any that are marked NSFW.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had noticed that it was omitting nsfw and meant to ask you at some point.
Yep, API limitation, so less a “won’t fix” and more of a “can’t fix right now”.
I will add to others’ comments, that although this is the default on the communities list, make sure the “Local” option is selected to see all communities on the specific instance or “All” to see all communities the instance federates with (in other words, all the communities it allows access to)
Lemmy-ui should have a communities button where you can see all the communities for that instance.
