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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Exactly, the issue is just with communities that I don't know exist. If I can't search for them from my instance, it's really difficult to find them. Then add to that that the communities are so fragmented (there may be 100 different communities for the same topic across different instances). If I search for a topic (ex. Gaming) I want THE biggest, most active gaming community.
Lemmy has the potential to get there, but if they want to attract and keep users en masse, it needs to prioritize making it not feel like such a fragmented experience.
One place you could try is https://browse.feddit.de - this makes it MUCH easier to find communities across all instances. And it has the busiest ones at the top if you just want to join those with most people in them.