Why doesn't lemmy show communities in the 'all' section unless people from your server are already subscribed to him? (unilem.org)

submitted 1 year ago by bobman@unilem.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It's excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. "Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won't see it here."

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the 'all' servers, I should have a list of 'all' the servers containing that string.

It's a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I'm wondering if there's something I can do to make these 'features' more intuitive.

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Casual and new users don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t know what other communities are out there and they don’t know that when they view “all” that they aren’t seeing them. Think about this from the perspective of someone who doesn’t know what you know.

Then they can ask. Plenty of new joiners ask plenty of other questions, and the community has answered them. I agree there should probably be a consolidated wiki at a later point to address this kind of questions, but with the constant evolution of the platform, and the animation of the different communities, I guess everyone is just busy with something else.

I'm not going to address the rest of your comments as this is a decision made on the Lemmy platform level, actually I just had a look at the GitHub issues, and this issue is already tracked here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

[-] krayj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Then they can ask.

When a new/casual user is looking at https://[instance]/communities, with the "ALL" button selected, why would it ever occur to them that they would need to ask others if that really is all the communities communities?

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Do you want to fix this issue? Create a public page using GitHub, rentry.co or whatever, agregate the information we discussed in that thread, and sens that to instances admins so that they add it to their sidebars.

That would be a way to actually solve the issue instead of complaining about it without doing anything else.

The alternative is to propose a pull request on the Lemmy GitHub to change the name from All to Known network, but I know that the entry barrier to GitHub pull requests is usually higher.

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