I’m missing something.
I’ve been looking for a college football magazine. When I clicked “Magazines” on my Kbin home and entered football or cfb, nothing came up. Something comes up now, because I made one. But then I saw a link to a web page called “Lemmy Explorer” and when I search there, four or five CFB communities show up.
What’s the simplest path for finding communities or magazines based on a keyword and making sure I’m not missing anything?
Bonus question: How does subscription to a magazine affect content I see? So far, I have only tracked down subscribed material by having notifications turn on and following those links?
There are a few ways. People have set up special websites to index servers and communities:
Lemmy Explorer filters through names and descriptions: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
and there’s also still Lemmy Community Browser which is a little older: https://browse.feddit.de/
Community promotion and discovery, there’s a lot:
community promo https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo
find a community !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
wow this Lemmy exists! https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists
a few more search sites turn up with this filter in Lemmy Explorer: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=find+communities
Generally, your home server will know a commuity’s existance only after someone has searched for it. I don’t know if this has already been fixed, but the advice has been to enter the whole URL of a community into the search bar in order to get it known to your server instance. And once you follow the link in the search result it should start to syncronise, which may take some seconds in the beginning.
ping: @Glide@lemmy.ca