With kbin, for example, you can go to kbin.social/d/beehaw.org and view the entirety of Beehaw’s communities within kbin itself. I know that you can subscribe to particular communities on other instances, but I’d like to be able to view all of kbin’s domain from within Beehaw on one page. Just wondering if Lemmy has this same ability to do so, or if this is currently a unique feature for kbin?
Okay, I saw this post from beehaw, but I wanted to comment from the kbin side because I was surprised that this is a kbin functionality. This is so cool! Seems like it’s a kbin only thing for now. Will definitely use it in the future.
I should probably start considering contributing to KBin’s code base. It seems like truly ambitious software and I’d love to see it mature to the level of Lemmy
No, I don’t believe such a feature exists as of right now, because indexing of Lemmy federated servers happen community by community.
It might be a nice to have for sure, along with tag groups, multi-communities and stuff like that.
Oh that makes sense, thanks! Still wrapping my head around this whole fediverse thing; looking forward to see how it grows and matures :)
My suspicion is kbin is not actually listing every possible community either, just the ones it knows about through the same sort of indexing, where Lemmy does not have an interface to view all of the known communities by instance. This hampers discovery a bit, but also avoids confusion as there may be additional communities available that don’t show up in that list if someone else on your instance hasn’t subscribed to it.
Kbin is heavily centralized right now, so the main instance does know about a ton of stuff.
Just tried that feature with Kbin but one downside is that it shows you posts made to other instances if it was posted by a user of the instance you’re browsing.
So if you wanted to see /d/Star Trek.website you’d get all the Star Trek posts… but also other random things that Star Trek.website people have posted anywhere else.
At the moment I’ve been creating separate users for the few instances that I want to be able to focus in on (such as beehaw) then I can just browse with Local and then a general Kbin one for bits and bobs.
I’ve been looking for a feature like this too. I found an interesting sub on another instance and I wanted to browse the rest of the communities but I couldn’t figure out how.
I’m trying to figure out the same! I can browse a specific kbin community through beehaw if a kbin user… posted to beehaw… and then I saw a kbin community on their profile and clicked through… but other than that very specific situation, I can’t figure it out. I want to subscribe to specific kbin communities and have no idea how to do it in a less roundabout (and often impossible) way.
There are likely more communities available on an instance that kbin does not know about. I think that list is limited to what kbin has indexed and cached based on user activity. The downside to such a list is that a user may think it is exhaustive.
oh i’ve been hoping for this feature, cool to see that kbin has it! i’ve just been trying to search for communities by keyword but i’m sure there’s a lot of cool stuff out there i haven’t come across yet