If the spirit of the fediverse is to spread everything across small instances, then i think it would be really important to make communities, especially niche communities, easier to discover across instances. Since it is not planned to crawl federated instances community catalog, i think instance admins, or maybe even the lemmy software itself, should point more obvious to services like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities instead of the lemmy (or mbin, piefed) internal search. It’s been a while since i have seen someone talk about these community crawler services.
Instances that don’t federate a remote community won’t even list this community in the user profile of a moderator.
I subscribe to !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl which I find rather nice
mbin also has a sidebar “random communities” which is quite useful and I moderately often click on stuff from it
It feels like maybe there should be a federated-community option like !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl that’s a little less awkward to make use of; IDK what that would look like though
Thanks for the trendingcommunities tip, subscribed it. It uses the lemmyverse crawler, so that is really good.
The problem with the mbin “random C’s” is, i guess, that it’ll only ever show c’s which are already being federated, so already discoverable from the internal search.