Okay, maybe "undiscoverable" is kind of the wrong word. I'm thinking about users who don't really understand how lemmy work and don't know that these tools are available.

During the initial "gold rush", I noticed a lot of duplicate communities being created on lemmy.world that already existed elsewhere (e.g. !opossums@lemmy.world for !possums@possumpat.io ). These communities I guess just didn't appear during a search on lemmy.world (since it didn't know about it).

Honestly, it felt like if you made a community anywhere other than lemmy.world, a lemmy.world version would appear and outcompete it unless you linked it elsewhere or it had a dedicated instance.

Not saying that anyone did anything wrong, it's just people being unfamiliar with the platform.