I went to the browse communities page. There were 33 communities on the first page. When I clicked next, I got an empty page. If there are only 33 communities, ideally, there shouldn’t be a next button or it should be grayed out. It not a big deal, just checking to see if the page is showing everything
Yes, that’s all the local communities. But if you toggle the top button from “Local” to “All” you can see the zillions of communities on the fediverse as a whole.
And yeah, the UI is a bit rough. I expect it will get more polished over time. Hopefully the influx of users recently will include some who want. to contribute to the lemmy projects.
Or use search. That is what I did. Then pick one of the top few depending on how you like them. Also lemmy.ml was not accepting subscriptions last time I tried. Not sure if that has been fixed or same.