this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
23 points (92.6% liked)

Lemmy

14061 readers
13 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
nutomic@lemmy.ml
23
How do you discover new communities? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by gtr@programming.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hi all, I'm new here. On Reddit there is the front page where I can find popular posts even in obscurely named subreddits like "leopardsatemyface" or "okbuddycinephile" that I could never find by actively searching for it.

How do you discover content on Lemmy that is not in your local instance?

I even tried subscribing to "leopardsatemyface" from Lemmy.world, but my app doesn't even show it in the search results even when actively looking for it. ๐Ÿคจ

Please help ๐Ÿ™ˆ

Also if you don't mind another stupid question, when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as "pending" and only a few minutes later as "joined" - why? What is it waiting for?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/communities

You can set the filter from "Local" to "All" and you'll find a direct community search on the side.

[โ€“] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This, but with your local instance. OP is on programming.dev.