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Is there a way of browsing random communities? (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by case_when@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It would be a good way of seeing what else is out there.

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[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't viewing by "All" show all subs in the feed

[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but this only shows communities followed by at least one user of your instance.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is that true? I didn’t realise this.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 10 months ago

Yep. I host my own instance, and /all is essentially the same as /subscribed for me, plus a few posts that I've pulled manually by clicking links.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Yep that's how all these federated services work. Your instance can only show you stuff it already knows about, so someone needs to have been first to find and follow it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It’s not true. You did realize it.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Yep that's how all these federated services work. Your instance can only show you stuff it already knows about, so someone needs to have been first to find and follow it.

[–] case_when@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago

What I enjoyed doing on The Other Place was going to a random community and seeing its top posts, its hot posts. It gave a sense of how vibrant or interesting it was.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Sync For Lemmy app has random community functionality.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.lemmy_sync

[–] case_when@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago

Interesting! I'm on Jerboa now, but I'll check it out. Thanks!

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This does seem like a fun thing for someone to build! Get on it, nerds.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I wanna turn pages that aren’t even there