Folks that have been here awhile probably already know this, but may have forgotten and new folks may not know it, so a reminder that we build the All feed together:

These previous ways will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover.

With that in mind, for intrepid explorers here, I’d highly recommend looking for communities via Lemmyverse and joining them from here to make the All feed more varied than just Lemmy.World’s communities.

I post this as I was browsing through All the other day and noticed it looked like I may as well have remained browsing Local for how few remote communities I was seeing. And that’s not for a lack of interesting communities on other instances either!

Although...

…That’s not to say it might not also be due to a lack of activity in them, but that can be helped by looking for communities first before making them locally, I think!

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    Thanks for the FYI! I didn’t know it worked like that. How much influence does a single person have over what appears in the All feed? Let’s suppose I find an obscure community and subscribe, and I’m the first person from Lemmy.World to do so. Do posts from that community immediately start showing up in everyone’s All feeds? Or does it take a small army of us subscribing to the same community to make it really show up?

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      As far as I’m aware, it only takes one person subscribing & making the instance aware of the community to start its posts showing up in the All feed. What then determines how much it shows up in the All feed is just how active the community is, if I’m not mistaken.

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    Thanks for that link OP. This bit answered a question I didn’t know I had:

    You can find more communities by browsing different Lemmy instances, or using the Lemmy Community Browser. When you found a community that you want to follow, enter its URL (e.g. https://feddit.de/c/main) or the identifier (e.g. !main) into the search field of your own Lemmy instance. Lemmy will then fetch the community from its original instance, and allow you to interact with it. The same method also works to fetch users, posts or comments from other instances.

    I’m going to assume this works similarly on kbin.
    Is it necessary to join them though? Or is it enough to, e.g., reply once, or even just search from within your instance?

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    I have been doing exactly this for the last three days! The site can be slow to respond, so one has to be a bit patient at times.

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    So, I’m using lemm.ee and the Memmy app, when I click on a community in the link you posted, it shows me the community but I also have to log in to subscribe. Using the lemm.ee login doesn’t seem to work (I’m trying to sub to worldnews@lemmy.ml). Should my account be in the lemmy.ml instance?

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      I’m not familiar with Memmy, so there may be some differences in navigating through it to subscribe to communities. If you can, you may want to try to copy the url or !worldnews@lemmy.ml, or simply tap that previous link, to go to it from lemm.ee and subscribe.

      You may also set your home instance in Lemmyverse by tapping the home icon & typing in lemm.ee, then the links should open in lemm.ee with you still signed in.

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        I’m receiving an error when I tap the link. This might be a Memmy issue. I did see they’ll add instance search in a future update, so that might do it. Thanks!

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          Most of the apps are having weird issues with opening links at the moment, which isn’t helped by the fact that the link formats keep changing in subtle ways from one Lemmy release to another! It’s fun to see all the swift progress but definitely makes it confusing for new lemmings.