- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
You should know this because finding communities on lemmy can be tough.
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Rule 2: make sure the body of your post contains Why YSK: and an explanation of why you should know.
I dont get why a third party site can see more of the fediverse than the fediverse can.
Same here. I understand the whole notion of how an instance is able to “see” communities on another instance on the fediverse. But I don’t get what these kinds of website do differently to see all communities on all instances and why instances can’t do that directly.
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Appreciate the clarification! I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how the fediverse works but I’m far from a programmer so some parts are still a bit confusing to me.
Is it just a different approach to reach the same goal or is there some inherent limitation to how the fediverse works that prevents instances from using crawlers?
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Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed explanation. It really clears up a lot of what I was confused about.
The community across the board on Lemmy has been so refreshing compared to the last few years on Reddit or any of the alternatives I’d tried before.
It’s hiding kbin magazines. There should be no difference between kbin magazines and lemmy communities when searching and exploring.
And they could fix this if they wanted to.
Just wanted to drop this version here in case you weren’t seeing any Kbin magazines on there- https://lemmyverse.net/kbin/magazines?order=followers
There’s a toggle in the upper right menu to show Kbin magazines c:
If you mean some are missing though, apologies for the misunderstanding!It’s possible, but there is no reason at all to have the kbin magazines separate from the communities.
They all federate the same, so why not list them all the same.Because Kbin and Lemmy aren’t the same thing. Kbin works with Lemmy, but it also works with other federated platforms, as well, such as Mastodon.
I’m guessing that the differences in the way Kbin works probably makes it difficult to include in the normal list.
