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Why do I get different results when searching for communities on two different instances?
(lemmy.ml)
This is what I mean...Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml
Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don't appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message
404: couldnt_find_community
A lemmy instance will only show communities that someone’s has previously searched using the full url. You can find a list of all available instances here: http://browse.feddit.de/
To add, after finding them, you then have to copy the fed link, search for it, and then wait for it to be fetched (takes a few seconds, usually doesn't require clicking search again, just waiting)
How is this expected to become popular if you need to go through all of that? I figured I could just search for a topic then subscribe, but if they're all separate then surely they'll all just become segmented with time and contain duplicate communities in many cases?
UX and UI are both pretty bad for lemmy imo. It's pretty early the development state, so while mastodon got a small but measurable amount of Twitter exiles, I expect far fewer for lemmy as it has far too many rough edges for now.
I disagree. I still prefer Twitter to mastodon even though I only use mastodon these days. I do already feel at home here on lemmy though even though I've only been here a day.