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How do you discover new communities? (programming.dev)
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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?

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[โ€“] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

lemmyverse.net has a damn decent community search function. Additionally, on lemmyverse, you can sort all communities by Active Users, Publish Time(age of the community, newest first), number of posts or number of comments.